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Association for Education in Journalism 

and Mass Communication 

104th Annual Conference • August 4-7, 2021



104th Annual Conference 

Virtual Conference • August 4-7, 2021 

Tim P. Voss, Michigan State University AEJMC President 

Susan Keith, Rutgers University, AEJMC President-Elect 

Katie Foss, Middle Tennessee State, AEJMC Council of Divisions Chair 

Amanda Caldwell, Interim AEJMC Executive Director/Conference Manager 

Felicia Greenlee Brown, AEJMC Assistant Director/Desktop Publisher 

Samantha Higgins, AEJMC Public Relations Specialist 

AEJMC was founded November 30, 1912, in Chicago, Illinois, 

as the American Association of Teachers of Journalism. 

Table of Contents 

AEJMC Board of Directors 3 

AEJMC Elected Standing Committees 6 

Tuesday Sessions 17 

Wednesday Sessions 33 

Thursday Sessions 65 

Friday Sessions 109 

Saturday Sessions 145 

AEJMC Past Presidents 159 

Award Recipients 161 

Advertiser’s Index 184 

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2020-21 AEJMC Board of Directors 

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Tim P. Vos 

Michigan State 

President 

Susan Keith 

Rutgers 

President-Elect 

Deb Aikat 

North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

Vice President 

David D. Perlmutter 

Texas Tech 

Past President 

Jerry Crawford 

Kansas 

Chair, PF&R Committee 

María Len-Ríos 

Georgia 

Chair, Research Committee 

Raluca Cozma 

Kansas State 

Chair, Teaching Committee 

Earnest L. Perry 

Missouri 

Chair, Publications Committee 

Katie Foss 

Middle Tennessee State 

Chair, Council of Divisions 

Jan Lauren Boyles 

Iowa State 

Vice Chair, Council of Divisions 

Cathy Johnson 

Norfolk State 

Chair, Commission on the 

Status of Minorities 

Kim Fox 

The American University in Cairo 

Chair, Commission on the 

Status of Women 

Nancy Green 

Southern Newspaper Publishers 

Chair, Council of Affiliates 

Gracie Lawson-Borders 

Howard 

ASJMC President 

Alan Stavitsky 

Nevada-Reno 

ASJMC President-Elect

4 2020-21 ASJMC Executive Committee 

Gracie Lawson-Borders 

Howard 

President 

Alan Stavitsky 

Nevada-Reno 

President-Elect 

Raul Reis 

Emerson 

Vice President 

James Stewart 

Nicholls State 

Past President 

Judy Oskam 

Texas State 

Chair, ACEJMC Representatives 

Jennifer Henderson 

Trinity 

Program Representative 

Temple Northup 

San Diego State 


Michael Wirth 

Tennessee 


Tim P. Vos 

Michigan State 

President

AEJMC Publications Editors 

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Jami Fullerton 

Oklahoma State 

Journalism & Mass 

Communication Educator 

Linda Steiner 

Maryland 

Journalism & 

Communication Monographs 

Daniela Dimitrova 

Iowa State 

Journalism & Mass 

Communication Quarterly 

AEJMC/ASJMC Central Office Staff 

Amanda Caldwell 

Interim Executive Director/ 

Conference Coordinator 

5 years with AEJMC/ASJMC 

Felicia Greenlee Brown 

Assistant Director/Desktop Publisher 


Kysh Brown 

Website Content Manager 


Lillian Coleman 

Progects Manager 


Samantha Higgins 

Public Relations/Marketing Specialist 


Pamella W. Price 

Membership Manager 

35 years with AEJMC/ASJMC

6 2020-21 AEJMC Elected Standing Committee Members 

PROFESSIONAL FREEDOM 

AND RESPONSIBILITY 

*Jerry Crawford II, Kansas 

Amy Falkner, Syracuse 

Meredith Clark, Virginia 

Gabriel Tait, Ball State 

Jason Shepard, California State Fullerton 

Nicole Dahmen, Oregon 

Diana Rios, Connecticut 

Jeannine Relly, Arizona 

Anastasia G. Kononova, Michigan State 

Calvin Hall, North Carolina Central 

PUBLICATIONS 

*Earnest Perry, Missouri 

Esther Thorson, Michigan State 

Jacqueline Lambiase, Texas Christian 

Shahira Fahmy, American University, Cairo 

Sandra Utt, Memphis 

Carolyn Lin, Connecticut 

Kathy Roberts Forde, Massachusetts-Amherst 

Don Heider, Santa Clara 

Hilary Sisco, Quinnipiac 

RESEARCH 

*María Len-Ríos, Georgia 

Melissa Tully, Iowa 

Amber Roessner, Tennessee-Knoxville 

Melita Garza, Texas Christian 

Shirley Ho, Nanyang Technological 

Rochelle Ford, Elon 

Celeste González de Bustamante, Arizona 

Linda Aldoory, Maryland 

Donnalyn Pompper, Oregon 

Brooke Weberling McKeever, South Carolina 

TEACHING 

*Raluca Cozma, Kansas State 

Carol Schwalbe, Arizona 

Kristin Gustafson, Washington, Bothell 

Kevin Williams, Mississippi State 

Tracy Everbach, North Texas 

Karen M. Turner, Temple 

Chris Roberts, Alabama 

Emily Metzgar, Kent State 

Mary Rogus, Ohio 

Ralph Beliveau, Oklahoma 

*denotes chair of committee

REYNOLDS SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM 

AND CENTER FOR ADVANCED MEDIA STUDIES 

University of Nevada, Reno 

CONGRATULATIONS, 

Dean Al Stavitsky 

ASJMC President 

2021-2022 

WELCOME TO OUR NEW COLLEAGUES 

Claudia Cruz 

Director of Internships & 

Experiential Learning 

Kathleen Masterson 

Reynolds Associate Professor of 

Practice in Science Communication 

Melissa McClinton 

Assistant Professor of 

Film & Media Production 

www.unr.edu/journalism 

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AEJMC CONGRATULATES 

2021 WINNER 

Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, 

Smartphones, & the New Protest #Journalism 

[New York: Oxford University Press] 

by Allissa V. Richardson, 

University of Southern California 

FINALISTS 

Community-Centered Journalism: Engaging 

People, Exploring Solutions, and Building Trust 

[Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: 

University of Illinois Press, 2020] 

by Andrea Wenzel, Temple University 

Democracy Without Journalism?: 

Confronting the Misinformation Society 

[New York: Oxford University Press, 2020] 

by Victor Pickard, University of Pennsylvania

The Department of Journalism and Media Studies and 

the School of Communication and Information at 

Rutgers University 

C O N G R A T U L A T E S 

SUSAN KEITH ON BECOMING THE NEW AEJMC PRESIDENT!

When the world slowed down, the College of Journalism and 

Mass Communications kept going. From new faculty faces to 

new learning spaces, there’s so much to look forward to at... 

NEW SPACES 

NEW SPACES 

NEBRASKA 

Our students do from day one. This fall we are launching seven new Experience Labs across 

the college where students can work with real clients in our student-run advertising and public 

relations agencies, Jacht and Buoy; write and design content for Heartland webzine; takeover 

the airwaves on KRNU 90.3; or cover news and sports for the Nebraska News Service, 

UNLimited Sports or Nebraska Nightly. We’re also adding a new integrated newsroom and 

studio and over 13,000 square feet dedicated to the agency experience labs. 

Jacht 

Buoy 

Heartland 

Advertising and public relations 

firm for local businesses 

and organizations 

Advertising and public relations 

firm for nonprofits that serve 

underrepresented communities 

— launching Fall 2021 

Webzine promoting 

Nebraska community and 

economic development 

— launching Fall 2021 

KRNU 90.3 

Nebraska 

Nightly 

Nebraska 

News Service 

UNLIMITED 

Sports 

Campus radio station featuring 

sports and music broadcasts 

Live streamed and recorded show 

featuring news, entertainment and 

weather — launching Fall 2021 

State news wire service that 

provides stories to Nebraska 

community partners 

Sports media station following the 

Huskers and Nebraska athletics 

▶ ▶ ▶ go.unl.edu/experiencelab 

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS 

▶ Advertising and Public Relations 

▶ Broadcasting 

▶ Journalism 

▶ Sports Media and Communication 

GRADUATE PROGRAMS 

▶ Integrated Media Communications (M.A.) 

▶ Professional Journalism (M.A.) 

▶ Financial Communication (Graduate Certificate) 

▶ PR and Social Media (Graduate Certificate)

NEW FACES 

NEW FACES 

We are excited to welcome seven new faculty members to our team. These additions to the 

CoJMC family will mentor and teach our Huskers, while advancing our fields through research 

and creative activity. 

Kelli Boling 

Kristen DiFate 

Shoun Hill 

Brian Hubbard 

assistant professor 

of advertising and 

public relations 

assistant professor of 

practice in advertising 

and public relations 

visiting professor 

in photojournalism 

assistant professor of 

practice in advertising 

and public relations 

Ciera Kirkpatrick 

Brian Petrotta 

Jason Stamm 


of advertising and 

public relations 


of sports media 

and communication 


of sports media 

and communication 

JOIN US 

JOIN US 

In our AEJMC-accredited program in Lincoln, Nebraska, you will teach, create, research 

and actively contribute to our professions. Ranked by Forbes as one of America's Best 

Large Employers, Nebraska is a proud member of the Big 10 Conference and Big 10 

Academic Alliance and features a small-campus feel with global connections. 

Our Open Positions: 

▶ Assistant Professor, Media Law 

▶ Assistant Professor of Practice, Media Production 

▶ Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Affairs 

To learn more and apply for one of our positions: visit ▶ ▶ ▶ go.unl.edu/cojmc 

The University of Nebraska does not discriminate based upon any protected status. Please see go.unl.edu/nondiscrimination. 

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Welcome! 

Joseph Mazer 

New Dean, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 

College of Communication & Information 

Joseph Mazer is the new dean of the University of Tennessee, 

Knoxville’s College of Communication and Information 

after serving as professor and chair of Clemson University’s 

Department of Communication. Mazer has nearly 20 years of 

experience in higher education. In 2012, he was named the director 

of the Social Media Listening Center at Clemson University. In 2018, 

he was selected to serve as the chair of Clemson’s Department of 

Communication, and in 2019, he was selected as a Faculty Fellow 

by Clemson’s Office of the Executive Vice President for Academic 

Affairs and Provost.

Our internationally recognized faculty includes two chancellor’s professors, five 

endowed professorships, two Nokia/Fulbright Distinguished Chairs, six Fulbright 

Scholars/Specialists, and one American Association for the Advancement of Science 

Fellow. 

CCI has multiple sponsored research grants from the National Science Foundation, 

United States Geological Survey, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 

Department of Defense, Institute of Museum and Library Services, and more. 

INTERDISCIPLINARY 

MASTER’S & PHD 

PROGRAMS 

Advertising 

Communication 

Studies 

Information 

Sciences 

Journalism & 

Electronic Media 

Public Relations 

NEW GRAD PROGRAM 

Online Master’s Concentration: Strategic & 

Digital Communication 

Launched in 2020, our new asynchronous online concentration in strategic 

and digital communication builds on what all of CCI’s Schools — Advertising 

& Public Relations, Communication Studies, Information Sciences, and 

Journalism & Electronic Media — bring to the competitive job market. For 

more information, contact Alexis Anderson at aande135@utk.edu 

LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR PROGRAMS 

Website: cci.utk.edu 

Phone: 865-974-6651 

Email: ccigradinfo@utk.edu 

Twitter & Instagram: @UTCCI

WELCOME TO 

ROCKY TOP 

KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE 

At the University of Tennessee 

College of Communication & 

Information, our graduates 

find employment across 

the nation and around the 

world. Explore our campus 

located in the foothills of the 

Great Smoky Mountains and 

experience the Volunteer 

difference for yourself. 

STATE OF THE ART FACILITIES 

• Adam Brown Social Media Command Center 

• Converged Newsroom 

• Digital Photo Lab 

• Public Speaking Center 

• Digital Video Editing Lab 

• Scripps Convergence Lab 

• Message Effects Lab 

• User Experience Lab 

WELCOME TO OUR NEW PROFESSORS 

CHRISTINA JIMENEZ NAJERA 

Assistant Professor 

Advertising & Public Relations 

PhD - Texas Tech University 

JOSEPH STABB 

Assistant Professor of Practice 

Advertising & Public Relations 

Previous: Assistant Professor; 

State University of New York at Oswego 

MICHAEL MARTINEZ 

Assistant Professor of Practice 

Journalism & Electronic Media 

Previous: Lecturer; 

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Tuesday Sessions 

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“Turning the Page: AEJMC Virtual Conference • August 4-7, 2021” — #aejmc2021 

9 a.m. to 6 p.m. / PC001 

Advertising Division 

Preconference Workshop Session 

Living in a Virtual World: Learning How to 

Navigate Virtual 2.0 Coming Out of the Pandemic 

9 a.m. to Noon / PC002 

Communicating Science, Health, Environment and Risk 

Division 


Inclusive ComSHER 

Tuesday 

Moderating/Presiding 

Jess Collins, Virginia Commonwealth 

and Shanshan Lou, Appalachian State 

New Orleans Agency Tour 

William Gilbert, Creative Director, 

Zehnder Communications 

Speakers 

Industry Professionals 

Sara Singh, Senior Strategist, Deutsch LA 

Cristian Castiglia, Strategist, The Martin Agency 

Young Professionals 

Kevin Nguyen, Intern, Terry & Sandy 

Madison Getgood, Copywriter, 

Crispin Porter Bogusky 

Khalied Bashri, Strategist, Joan Creative 

Recruitment Professionals 

Christine Creery, Brand & Diversity Recruiting 

Manager, Capital One 

Kelsey Honz, Senior Recruiter, The Many 

Marty Ritter, Director of Talent, 

Arts & Letters Creative 

Professors 

Yang Feng, San Diego State 

Jason Freeman, Brigham Young 

Cheryl McPhilimy, Loyola Chicago 

Although we are nearing the end of the pandemic, working 

remotely is here to stay for many companies. At the 

pre-conference workshop, we will hear from HR representatives 

from the industry - both agency and client side 

- on what companies are looking for in newly graduated 

candidates and what will make our students most desirable 

in a post-pandemic world. We will hear from industry 

professionals on the new “norms” in the agency and 

client side working environment including how to handle 

fast-paced pitches virtually - so that we may pass those 

skills onto our students. And we will hear from professors 

who can offer their own wise tips and tricks on skills 

we should be teaching our students post-pandemic. The 

pre-conference workshop is all day and will include 

individual presentations, panels, and team building exercises. 

We are so excited for this full day of learning with 

all of you! Pre-registration at https://aejmc2.wufoo.com/ 

forms/2021-advertising-division-workshop is required. 


Kajsa E. Dalrymple, Iowa 

The Inclusive ComSHER Preconference brings academics, 

practitioners, teachers, and learners together to address 

our collective responsibility to build trust, transparency, 

equity, diversity and inclusivity in the subfields of science, 

health, environmental, and risk communication. 

The key objective of the preconference is for academics 

and practitioners to come together to explore how inclusive 

practices can be embedded in our research, classrooms 

and workplaces. All AEJMC members are invited to 

participate. Pre-registration at https://aejmc2.wufoo.com/ 

forms/2021-inclusive-comsher is required. 

9 a.m. to 6 p.m. / PC003 

Minorities and Communication Division 


Creative Outlets: Battling fatigue and Minority 

Related Trauma through Healing 


Sydney Dillard, DePaul 

Panelists 

Falynn Thompson, Toledo 

Jeffery Beckham, Chief Executive Officer 

and Digital Strategist, Chicago Scholars 

Karen Lindsey, Texas Christian 

Kathleen McElroy, Texas at Austin 

Autumn Caviness, Texas at Austin 

Jerry Bramwell, Principal, Law Offices 

of Fitzgerald Bramwell 

The associations between racial microaggressions, coping, 

and mental health among ethnic minorities has become 

a growing topic of concern among scholars. While the 

academy attempts to find appropriate steps for addressing 

equities that place greater burdens upon minority groups, 

there is still room for improvement. Often times recommendations 

direct scholars toward self-help options that 

primarily focus on individual reflection with little to no 

consideration beyond one’s own agency. In response, 

this preconference offers an exploration of various creative 

outlets for battling fatigue associated with minority 

related trauma. This preconference will offer options that

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include mindfulness techniques, cooking demonstrations, 

painting demonstrations, and other less traditional means 

for responding, such as legal support. This preconference 

will direct scholars to agentive, cultural, and structural 

change that may help create a space for healing and 

flourishing as a minority communications scholar in the 

academy. 

9 a.m. to 1 p.m. / PC004 

Media Management, Economics and Entrepreneurship 

Division 

Preconference Workshop 

Python Applications in Mass Communications 

and Journalism 


Miao Guo, Ball State 

Panelists 


Iris Lee, Southern California; Los Angeles Times 

This preconference workshop will explore natural language 

processing in mass communication research and 

practical applications of python in data journalism. 

9 a.m. to 1 p.m. / PC05 

Solutions Journalism Network 

Preconference Workshop 

How to Incorporate Solutions Journalism 

into Any Journalism Course 


Sara Catania, Vice President of Network Strategy, 

Solutions Journalism Network and 

Francine Huff, Director of College Journalism 

Partnerships, Solutions Journalism Network 

Journalism is being called to meet a historic moment. 

Societies around the globe are reeling from inequality, 

conflict, racism, environmental crises and political dysfunction. 

At the same time, journalism is facing crises of 

trust, relevance and sustainability. More than ever, journalists 

are needed as both watch dogs and guide dogs to 

identify problems and challenges and reveal options and 

potential solutions. In order to serve society today, journalism 

must evolve into a source of timely and credible 

information that both critiques what’s gone wrong and 

reveals emerging possibilities for a better future. Solutions 

journalism tells complete stories that combine rigorous, 

evidence-based reporting on responses to problems with 

traditional problem-focused reporting. This approach 

advances equity by reflecting the strengths and aspirations 

of people and communities, not just their problems 

and deficits. This four-hour workshop will equip 

you with the understanding, skills and tools you need 

to incorporate the key concepts of solutions journalism 

into any journalism course. Pre-registration at https:// 

aejmc2.wufoo.com/forms/solutions-journalism-networkworkshop-aejmc 

is required. 

1 to 5 p.m. / PC006 

Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement 

of Women in Communication at Florida International 

University, AEJMC Council of Affiliates 

and Commission on the Status of Women 


Women Faculty Moving Forward: Leading 

the Future of Academia 


Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver, Florida International 

and Tracy Everbach, North Texas 

Keynote Speaker 


Panelists 

Meenakshi “Gigi” Durham, Professor, former 

Associate Dean for Outreach and Engagement, 

and Director of Diversity, College of Liberal 

Arts and Science, Iowa 

Melita Garza, Associate Professor, Bob Schieffer 

College of Communication, Texas Christian 

Dustin Harp, Director of Women’s and Gender 

Studies Program, Texas-Arlington 

Sonora Jha, Professor and Associate Dean for 

Academic Community, College of Arts 

and Sciences, Seattle 

Marquita Smith, Assistant Dean of Graduate 

Programs, School of Journalism 

and New Media, Mississippi 

This annual workshop with accomplished academics will 

help junior women faculty move forward in their careers 

through mentoring, networking and preparing for tenure 

and promotion and administration and leadership positions. 

By application only.


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1:30 to 5:30 p.m. / PC007 

Communication Technology Division 


Facebook Crowd Tangle for Academic Research 


Mike Horning, Virginia Tech 

The panel will explore the impact of direct trauma 

exposure, vicarious trauma exposure, burnout, and related 

stresses on individual journalists and news teams. 

Panelists will offer knowledge and tools on how to suitably 

address mental health issues for student journalists 

as they emerge, and how to build a culture in the classroom 

of collegial support through times of acute and 

prolonged crisis and upheaval, and the stressors that are 

inherent to the work of doing journalism. 

Tuesday 

Panelists 

Naomi Shiffman, Facebook 

Crowdtangle is a tool that allows researchers to search 

Facebook posts and images for trends, keywords and 

other public information. Results from searches can be 

downloaded and analyzed for a variety of data such as 

performance metrics, semantic data, shares, likes, etc. 

The workshop will be taught by Naomi Shiffman, the 

Academic and Research Lead from CrowdTangle and 

Facebook. Previous projects have explored topics such 

as misinformation flows on social media, breaking news 

events, health-related information, and political campaign 

events. Workshop participants must be academic 

researchers and will receive free access to Crowdtangle. 

During the workshop you will have the opportunity to 

work on your own research projects and field questions 

about how to use the CrowTangle tool. Pre-registration 

at https://aejmc2.wufoo.com/forms/pc07-a-facebookcrowd-tangle-for-academic-research 

is required. 

1:30 to 5:30 p.m. / PC008 

Electronic News Division 


Centering Self Care in Journalism: Managing Stress, 

Dealing with Trauma, and Accepting Emotion 

as Truth Telling News Coverage 


Gina Baleria, Sonoma State 

1:30 pm to 2:45 pm — 

(w/breakout discussion at end of panel) 

Panelists 

Allissa Richardson, Southern California 

Cassie Shirm, Reporter/Anchor out of the Triad, 

North Carolina 

Moni Basu, Michael and Linda Connelly Lecturer 

for Narrative Nonfiction; Florida; former 

Journalist; Author, Chaplain Turner’s War 

Doug Sovern, reporter/anchor, KCBS Radio 

3 pm to 4:30 pm — Self Care 

(w/breakout discussion at end of panel) 

Presenter 

Elana Newman, Professor of Psychology, Tulsa; 

Research Director, Dart Center for Journalism 

and Trauma 

With news professionals challenged by so many unprecedented 

events, The Dart Center for Journalism and 

Trauma, a project of Columbia University’s Graduate 

School of Journalism, will offer a workshop on resilience 

building amid crisis. The session will mainly focus on 

techniques for self-care and collegial support and offer 

best practice techniques for journalism educators and 

other news professionals on how to support individuals 

and news teams, and foster a supportive work environment. 

4:30 pm to 5:30 pm — Discussion with attendees & 

participants about how to help students 

Elana and Gina will lead discussion of where educators 

should focus with students to prepare them as best we 

can, as well as summarize the main points of the session. 

1:30 to 5:30 p.m. / PC009 

Law and Policy Division 


Panel I — 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. 

Increasing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion 

in Media Law and Ethics Curricula 


Kathleen B. Culver, Wisconsin 

Panelists 

Mariam Alkazemi, Virginia Commonwealth 

Ammina Kothari, Rhode Island 

Ryan Thomas, Missouri

Even during an unprecedented and challenging year, the Newhouse School 

at Syracuse University has grown and thrived. Newhouse is an active, dynamic 

community where top students come to study communications, and where 

teachers, practitioners, thought leaders and scholars help them prepare to lead 

and shape the industry of tomorrow. 

AWARD-WINNING STUDENTS 

Newhouse students earn accolades for their professional quality work, and are consistently 

recognized at major awards competitions across the communications industry. These are just a 

few of the honors our students have earned in the past year: 

William Randolph Hearst Foundation 

Journalism Awards Program 

FIRST PLACE 

Feature Writing 

Madeleine Davison 

FIRST PLACE 

College Investigative Reporting 

Gabe Stern 

Society for Professional Journalists 

Mark of Excellence 

NATIONAL WINNER 

Online Sports Reporting 

Madeleine Davison 


Television Feature Reporting 

Ricky Sayer 


Online/Digital Sports Videography 

Cole Strong 

College Photographer of the Year 

SILVER 

Jessica Ruiz 

BRONZE 

Dan Lyon 

2021 Graphis New Talent 

PLATINUM 

Sam Luo 

PLATINUM 

Xinran Xiao 

GOLD 

Allison Scherger

JOIN US 

Newhouse will hire up to a dozen new faculty members during the 

2021–22 academic year. To stay current on open positions, visit 

newhouse.syr.edu/careers. 

TALENTED NEW FACULTY 

We are excited to expand and enhance our academic mission with the addition of several 

new faculty members. This diverse group of scholars and professionals will help continue the 

Newhouse School’s reputation for excellence. 

Susan-Sojourna Collier 


Television, Radio and Film 

Edecio Martinez 

Executive Editor and 

Professor of Practice 

Magazine, News and Digital Journalism/ 

Broadcast and Digital Journalism 

Nausheen Husain 


Magazine, News and Digital Journalism/ 

Broadcast and Digital Journalism 

Dr. Hector Rendon 


Communications 

Dr. Moon Lee 

Chair 


Milton Santiago 


Visual Communications

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Panel II — 2:30 to 4 p.m. 

Securing Grant-Funding for Collaborative 

Research in JMC 


Amy Kristin Sanders, Texas at Austin 

Panelists 

Rachel Davis Mersey, Texas at Austin 

Jasmine McNealy, Florida 

Deen Freelon, North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

Panel III — 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. 

Teaching Competition 


Kyla Garrett Wagner, Syracuse 

1:30 to 5:30 p.m. / PC010 

International Communication Division 


Ontologies of Journalism in the Global South 

Panel I — 1:30 pm to 3 pm 

Journalism in the Global South: Conceptual 

Implications and Theoretical Directions 


Daniela Dimitrova, Iowa State 

Panelists 

Bruce Mutsvairo, Auburn 

Saba Bebawi, University of Technology, Sydney 

Eddy Borges-Rey, Northwestern in Qatar 

Monica Chadha, Arizona State 

BREAK (15-minutes) 

Panel II — 3:15 pm to 4:30 pm 

De-Westernizing Journalism: Ontological 

Debates Around the World 


Summer Harlow, Houston 

Panelists 

Journalism in East Europe: Rethinking 

Methodological and Epistemological Foundations 

Márton Demeter, National University 

of Public Service (Hungary) 

De-westernizing Journalism in Latin America 

Magdalena Saldaña, Pontificia Universidad 

Catolica de Chile 

Universalizing Journalism in the Global South: 

Challenges for Africa 

Hayes Mabweazara, University of Glasgow, 

United Kingdom 

Rethinking Emerging Debates on De-westernizing 

Journalism Across Asia 

Kristin Skare Orgeret, Oslo Metropolitan 

University, Norway 

Past, Current and Future Projection on 

De-westernizing Journalism in the Arab World 

Hanan Badr, Gulf University for Science and 

Technology, Kuwait 

The preconference will provide a broad overview of the 

ontologies of journalism in the Global South and offer 

ways to reframe the debate and deepen our understanding 

of emerging insights on the wider conceptualization 

and theorization of journalism in the Global South. 

Bringing in journalism scholars working in non-Western 

contexts, two panel sessions provide an opportunity to 

critique the discipline through their own lens, seeking 

to contribute not only to current debates on journalism 

ontologies in the Global South, but also long-lasting 

expectations that Latin American, Asian, Arab world, 

East European and African journalism scholarship should 

lead to the development of home-grown theories that are 

either developing or yet to be realized and established. 

This preconference will consist of two panels, followed 

by a roundtable discussion where audience members 

will interact with panelists to discuss how we can move 

forward with the ideas brought forward in the panels. The 

goal is to focus on the practical “how-to” ways we as a 

division can model and promote de-Westernization of 

international journalism scholarship. 

BREAK (15-minutes) 

Roundtable Discussion — 4:45 pm to 5:30 pm 

Ontologies of Journalism in the Global South 


Daniela Dimitrova, Iowa State 

The Roundtable is intended to offer a place, where scholars 

from around the world can share their experiences 

and brainstorm ways in which the barriers facing journalism 

faculty from the Global South can be challenged 

and overcome in the long run. In addition, a special 

forum edition to be published in Journalism and Mass 

Communication Quarterly, the flagship journal of AEJMC, 

will seek to define and theorize journalism in the Global 

South. Building knowledge around communication in the 

Global South and expanding our community of scholars 

to non-Western contexts fits well with the editorial priorities 

of the journal.


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1:30 to 3:30 p.m. / PC011 


Division 


I Think Your Mic is Muted: Best Practices for 

Remote Teaching 


Ronen Shay, Fordham 

Panelists 

Anthony Palomba, Virginia 

Arien Rozelle, St. John Fisher 


Juval Racels, Wentworth Institute of Technology 

Join us for a preconference session where established 

faculty with extensive teaching experience provide an 

overview of a variety of pedagogical approaches to 

teaching remotely. Topics to be addressed include the 

case method; managing/teaching client-driven course 

work; balancing synchronous and asynchronous options; 

and managing/teaching writing in a remote setting. 

questions and more. We’ll also break down terminology 

that we all hear thrown around such as “research line” or 

“seed funding” or other things that scholars would need 

to know about or how to negotiate for on the job market. 

1:30 to 3 p.m. / PC013 

Participatory Journalism Interest Group 


Engaged Journalism Exchange: Toward 

an Antiracist Journalism Education 


Daniela Gerson, California State-Northridge 

Jacob Nelson, Arizona State 

and Andrea Wenzel, Temple 

Panelists 

Diamond Hardiman, Media 2070/Free Press 

News Voices 

Alissa Richardson, Southern California 

Sue Robinson, Wisconsin 

Fernanda Santos, Arizona State 

Tuesday 

1:30 to 5:30 p.m. / PC012 

Newspaper and Online News Division 

and Graduate Student Interest Group 


Eyeing the Job Market as a Doctoral Student 


Patrick R. Johnson, Iowa 

and Andrew Duffy, Nanyang Technological 


Mia Moody-Ramirez, Baylor 

Panelists 

Steve Bien-Aime, Northern Kentucky 

Gregory P. Perreault, Appalachian State 

Shahira S. Fahmy, American in Cairo 

Gina Masullo, Texas at Austin 

Matt Haught, Memphis 

How do you launch your academic career? What “soft 

skills” are appealing to universities as they are evaluating 

a new faculty hire? How do you know which positions 

to apply for? What if your skillset/research area does not 

match exactly what is advertised? Can/should you still 

apply? What would a “typical” experience be at an R-1 

institution versus more teaching focused schools? How 

about public vs. private universities? We’ll consider these 

Around the U.S., news organizations have been reckoning 

with the structural racism that undergirds their 

newsrooms and the larger industry. At the same time, a 

number of scholars have been researching how racism 

and whiteness influence the field’s norms and practices. 

In this Engaged Journalism Exchange preconference, we 

will explore where efforts seeking to push toward antiracist 

journalism have the potential to collide—in journalism 

education classrooms and beyond. 

In a series of lightning presentations and breakout discussions, 

we will explore how journalism educators have 

been bringing best practices for inclusive and antiracist 

journalism into the classroom, and discuss how curricula 

may be adapted to question harmful norms and practices, 

and to build competencies needed for more inclusive 

journalism. 

This Engaged Journalism Exchange (https://medium.com/ 

engaged-journalism-bridging-research-and-practice) 

preconference aims to connect journalism educators, 

researchers and practicing journalists. It is supported by 

the Agora Journalism Center/Gather, the Walter Cronkite 

School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona 

State University, Temple University’s Klein College, the 

Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, 

and AEJMC’s Participatory Journalism Interest Group. 

Please RSVP here: https://bit.ly/EJE-preconference-RSVP

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1:30 to 5:30 p.m. / PC014 

Small Programs Interest Group 


Part I — We’ve earned Tenure and Promotion! Now 

What?! 

Presiding/Moderating 

Christina Smith, Georgia College 

Panelists 

Brian Steffen, Simpson 

Leigh Wright, Murray State 

Felicia McGhee, Tennessee, Chattanooga 

John Chapin, Pennsylvania State, Beaver 

Jeremy Sarachan, St. John Fisher 

As an Assistant Professor, the first three to five years in 

rank are focused toward acquiring credibility and national 

recognition through research and creative works. The 

reward of earning tenure and promotion provide relief 

and potentially a reduced-stress workload, at least during 

the dossier evaluation period. But what’s next? This panel 

will address this question and offer ideas for how to avoid 

academia burnout and progress as an Associate Professor. 

Part II — Promotions, Pandemic and Panic 


Liz Atwood, Hood College 

Panelists 

Kay Colley, Texas Wesleyan 

Pam Parry, Southeast Missouri State 

Ralph Hanson, Nebraska, Kearney 

Kate Stepaniuc, Southeast Missouri State 

How has the pandemic affected the pursuit of promotion 

and tenure and what can individuals, administrators 

and departments do to help assure a fair playing field for 

women and minorities? This will look at strategies to help 

mitigate the negative effects on teaching, research and 

service. 

Part III — Do I Want to be an Academic 

Administrator? The Pay Looks Good, but is It Worth It? 


Liz Atwood, Hood 

and Christina Smith, Georgia College 

Panelists 

Kenneth R. Pybus, Abilene Christian 

Marquita Smith, Mississippi 

Kelly B. Bruhn, Drake 

Carrie Sipes, Shippensburg 

This panel will look at the pros and cons of becoming a 

department chair or program director. What do administrators 

wish they had known before they accepted the 

job? 

1:30 to 5:30 p.m. / PC015 

Association for Education in Journalism and Mass 

Communication and Association of Schools of 

Journalism and Mass Communication 

Training Session 

Institute for Diverse Leadership in Journalism 

and Communication I 


Gracie Lawson-Borders, Howard, 

ASJMC President 2020-21 

2019-20 Class Fellows 

Adedayo Abah (Dayo), Washington and Lee 

Saleem Alhabash, Michigan State 

Vanessa Bravo, Elon 

Rockell Brown Burton, Texas Southern 

Maria De Moya, DePaul 

Felicia McGhee, Tennessee at Chattanooga 

Suman Mishra, Southern Illinois Edwardsville 

Jennifer Potter, Towson 

Gi Woong Yun, Nevada, Reno 

1:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. – Welcome 

Gracie Lawson-Borders, Howard 

2 p.m. to 3 p.m. — Presenter 

Looking Forward: How Higher Ed Is Adjusting 

and Transforming 

Raul Reis, Emerson 

3 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. 

Break 

3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. — Roundtable Discussion 

Leadership Styles, Transition into Academic 

Leadership and Working Across Disciplines 

Brooke Barnett, Butler 

and Meghan Sanders, Louisiana State 

5 p.m. to 5:30 pm – Conclusion 

Gracie Lawson-Borders, Howard


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5 to 6 p.m. / PC016 

Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement 

of Women in Communication at Florida International 

University, AEJMC Council of Affiliates, and Commission 

on the Status of Women 

Preconference Session 

Kopenhaver Center Fellows Networking Session 


Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver, Florida International 

All past and present Kopenhaver Center Fellows are 

invited to come to this networking session and networking 

time for them. By invitation only. 

Panelists 

Cessna Winslow, Tarleton State 

Susan Fredricks, Pennsylvania State Brandywine 

Pamela Morris, Loyola Chicago 

Sorin Nastasia, Southern Illinois 

KiYong Kim, Biola 

Lona Cobb, Winston-Salem State 

Peggy Watt, Western Washington 

Panelists share how internships are handled at their 

institutions. How can internship evaluations contribute 

to program assessment? These are important considerations, 

especially in the context of COVID-19 pandemic. 

How do we prepare students for internships and 

careers in communications? This panel will provide tips 

from a variety of institutions across the country. 

Tuesday 

6 to 7:30 p.m. / PC017 

Internships and Careers Interest Group 


Designing the Internship Course 


Stephanie Bluestein, California State Northridge 

7 to 8:30 p.m. / PC018 

History Division 


Awards Gala 


Will Mari, Louisiana State 

History Division recognizes its various award winners 

the night before the conference. 

Please join the AEJMC Central Office Staff in dedicating the 

2021 AEJMC Conference in honor of our longtime past Conference Manager 

Fred L. Williams 

We are enternally grateful for his direction and leadership 

of the AEJMC and ASJMC conference experiences.

AEJMC Congratulates 

the winner of the 2021 

Paul J. Deutschmann Award 

for Excellence in JMC Research 

Glen T. Cameron 

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI

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It also reported that more than half of responding companies took 

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Most students complete all four modules in 20-35 hours of self-study. 

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C E L E B R A T I N G 

50 Years 

MINORITIES AND 

COMMUNICATION DIVISION

Wednesday Sessions 

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9 to 10:30 a.m. / W001 


Refereed Paper Session 

Digital Advertising 



Industry Views on Enhancing Digital Advertising 

Ritika Agrawal, Iowa State 

Seeker or Sentry? Consumers’ Coping Mechanism 

with Third-Party Cookie Driven Advertising: 

Multidimensional Persuasion Knowledge Perspective 

Un Chae Chung, Ayoung Seok 

and Chang-Dae Ham, Illinois 

The Role of Perceived Interactivity and User 

Gratifications to Use Live-Streaming Commerce 

Eunsin Joo and Jing Yang, Loyola Chicago 

To Tell or Not to Tell: Effects of AI-powered Virtual 

Try-on Feature and Transparency on Brand Attitudes 

and Purchase Intentions 

Yuan Sun, Pennsylvania State; 

Jason Freeman, Brigham Young; 

Heather Shoenberger, 

and Fuyuan Shen, Pennsylvania State 

Discussant 

Kang Hyunjin, Nanyang Technology 

The Power of a Good Story: Domestic Violence 

Survivors in True Crime Podcast Audiences 

Kelli Boling, Nebraska 

Disinformation and Weaponized Communication: 

The Spread of Ideological Hate about the Macedonian 

Name in Greece 

Minos-Athanasios Karyotakis, Hong Kong Baptist 

Part II — Communication, Information Flows and COVID 

Moderator/Discussant: 

Mimi Perreault, East Tennessee State 

[EA] “The Virus May Have Come From…”: COVID-19 

Infodemic in China and the Politics of (Mis)Translation 

Sheng Zou, Michigan 

“I Know It’s Sensitive”: Internet Filtering, Recoding, 

and “Sensitive-word Culture” in China 

WeiMing Ye and Luming Zhao, Peking University 

[EA] Cultural Sensitivity in Health Crisis Communication: 

The Case of COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa 

Elinam Amevor, Oregon 

Interrogating Perceptions of Risk and Responsibility 

in Sports During the Coronavirus Pandemic 

Charli Kerns, Tennessee 

The Space Between Home and Away: Sixteen Fragments 

across Communication as Culture 

Peter Joseph Gloviczki, Coker 

[EA] = This submission was accepted as an extended 

abstract. 

Wednesday 

9 to 10:30 a.m. / W002 

Cultural and Critical Studies Division 

High Density Refereed Paper Session 

Part I — Activism, Ideology, and the Politics of Platforms 


Benjamin LaPoe, Ohio 

[EA] Melodramatic Platforms: the Emotional Theatre 

of Collective Political Storytelling on Social Media 

Míchílín Ní Threasaigh, Ali Azhar, 

and Megan Boler, Toronto 

India’s #MeToo Movement in Bollywood: Exposing 

Cultural & Societal Mores 

Umana Anjalin, Tennessee 

and Abhijit Mazumdar, Park University 

Witnessing the Power of Digital Activism BTS’ 

Involvement Brought into the Social Movement: 

A Case of the Black Lives Matter 

Jiwoo Park, California State, Fullerton 

9 to 10:30 a.m. / W003 

History and Visual Communication Divisions 

PF&R Panel Session 

Flashpoint in History: How Image Shapes 

Historical Understanding 


Madeleine Liseblad, California State, Long Beach 

Panelists 

Jinx Broussard, Louisiana State 

Natalia Mielczarek, Virginia Tech 

Gabriel B. Tait, Ball State 

Peg Achterman, Seattle Pacific

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9 to 10:30 a.m. / W004 



Emerging Questions in Free Expression 

and the Exchange of Ideas 


Genelle Belmas, Kansas 

[EA] The Arab Winter: How Privacy Norms, Social 

Media and Dissent Spurred Increasing Government 

Repression of Free Expression in the Decade Following 

the Arab Spring 

Amy Kristin Sanders 

and William Kosinski, Texas at Austin 

Liable, Naaaht: The Mockumentary: Litigation, Liability 

and the First Amendment in the works of Sacha Baron 

Cohen* 

Roy Gutterman, Syracuse 

Nearly Extinct in the Wild: The Vulnerable Transparency 

of the Endangered Species List 

Benjamin W. Cramer, Pennsylvania State 

Social Media and the Economy of Hate** 

Hayley Rousselle, Syracuse 

Discussant 

Jason Shepard, California State - Fullerton 

* Third Place Faculty Paper 

** Second Place student paper 


abstract. 

Despite its label as “the forgotten medium,” radio remains 

a resilient communication force, adapting to technological 

changes. Community radio, in particular, maintains 

the medium’s traditional roots as a disseminator of artistic 

expression and political information. This panel will 

combine practitioners and researchers to examine radio’s 

role in the current climate of unrest in the U.S. 

9 to 10:30 a.m. / W006 


Division 


Understanding Media Property Performance: 

Then and Now 


Su Jung Kim, Southern California 

The Financialization of ABC: Wall Street Legitimation & 

the Financialized Commodity Audience, 1943-1970* 

Peter Johnson, Boston University 

Do Four (or Five, or Six) Firms Control the American 

Media? Revisiting the Media Monopoly 

Jon Bekken, Albright 

Analysis on Financing Efficiency of Listed Media 

Companies in China from 2014 to 2018 

Changcheng Zhou 

Discussant 


* First Place Student Paper 

9 to 10:30 a.m. / W005 

Mass Communication and Society Division 

and Community Journalism Interest Group 


Radio as Resistance: Aesthetics, Culture 

and Information Intertwined 


Brian J. Bowe, Western Washington; 

The American University in Cairo 

Panelists 

Garrett McQueen, Trilloquy 

Eugene Thomas, WWOZ, New Orleans 

Sonja D. Williams, Howard 

Kyle Miller, South Dakota 

9 to 10:30 a.m. / W007 

Minorities and Communication and Scholastic 

Journalism Divisions 

Teaching Panel Session 

Practical Ways to Diversify Journalism Skills Courses 


Keonte Coleman, Middle Tennessee State 

Panelists 

David Brown, Temple 


Mia Long Anderson, Azusa Pacific 

Ingrid Sturgis, Howard


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9 to 10:30 a.m. / W008 


Scholar-to-Scholar Refereed Paper Poster Session 

Topic I — Did you Hear the Latest? Sharing, 

Influencing, Branding, and Receiving News 

01-0900-01 • Getting News from Social Media 

Influencers and from Legacy News Media in Seven 

Countries: The More-and-more Phenomenon and the 

New Opinion Leadership 

Justin Martin, Northwestern Qatar 

and Krishna Sharma, Northwestern 

01-0900-02 • Predicting News Sharing in Social Media 

from an Integrated Approach 


and Jacob Nelson, Arizona State 

01-0900-03 • #BREAKING in L.A.: Twitter Use in a 

Regional News Market 

Frank Russell, Miquel Hernandez, 

and Korryn Sanchez, California State–Fullerton 

01-0900-04 • [EA] Passive News Consumption, Social 

Media Use, and Public Perceptions of Journalistic Roles 

Lars Willnat and Yu Tian, Syracuse 

01-0900-05 • What You See and What You Think: 

Exploring News-ness Perceptions 

and News Media Repertoires in Singapore 

Jingwei Zheng 

and Edson Tandoc Jr., Nanyang Technological 

Discussant 

Joy Jenkins, Tennessee 

Topic II – Making modern news: Diversity, transparency, 

and the free press 

01-0900-06 • The Impact of Public Transparency 

Infrastructure on Data Journalism: A Comparative 

Analysis between Information-rich and Information-poor 

Countries 

Lindita Camaj, Houston; Jason Martin, DePaul 

and Gerry Lanosga, Indiana 

01-0900-07 • How Journalists Think About the First 

Amendment Vis-à-Vis Their Coverage of Hate Groups 

Gregory Perreault, Appalachian State; 

Jon Peters, Georgia; Brett Johnson 

and Leslie Klein, Missouri 

01-0900-08 • Source Diversity in Nonprofit News: A 

Comparative Analysis of the 19th* and The New York 

Times 

Carolina Velloso, Maryland 

01-0900-09 • [EA] Diversity Sourcing Tool: Intentions, 

Self-Observation and Learning 

Lucinda Davenport 

and Joseph Grimm, Michigan State 

01-0900-10 • [EA] A Reckoning for the Media Industry: 

Examining the Implementation of CSR 

Communication on Diversity 

Allie Kosterich, Fordham and Ziek Paul, Pace 

01-0900-11 • Promises Granted: Venture Philanthropy 

and the Tech Industry’s Increasing Authority 

Over the Journalism Field 

Brian Creech, Temple 

and Perry Parks, Michigan State 

Discussant 

Karin Assmann, Georgia 

Topic III – Perceptions of Journalism: Decision-making 

about Legitimacy and Conspiracy 

01-0900-12 • Deceptive Power of Fake News: 

Perception of Believability Centers around Visuals, 

News Media, Social Media and Shared Values 

Mohammad Ali and Dennis Kinsey, Syracuse 

01-0900-13 • Discerning Whether It’s ‘Fake’ News: 

The Relationship Between Social Media Use, Political 

Knowledge, Epistemic Political Efficacy, and Fake News 

Literacy 

Bingbing Zhang, Pennsylvania; Avery Holton, Utah 

and Homero Gil de Zúñiga, Salamanca/ 

Pennsylvania State 

01-0900-14 • Flooding the Gates: Conservative Media, 

Hunter Biden’s Laptop Conspiracy and Gatekeeping in 

the Social Media Era 

Burton Speakman, Kennesaw State, 

Aaron Atkins, Weber, 

and Marcus Funk, Sam Houston State 

01-0900-15 • Public Perceptions and Attitudes towards 

the Application of Artificial Intelligence in Journalism: 

From a China-based Survey 

Wencai Hu, Mengru Sun, and Wei Huang, Zhejiang 

01-0900-16 • [EA] The Role of Self-Categorization 

and Perceptual Media Effects in Selective Exposure to 

Election Fact-Checking 

Dylan McLemore 

and Christopher Roland, Central Arkansas 

01-0900-17 • Who, What, and How: Analyzing Judicial 

Constructions of Journalism in Twenty-First Century 

Cases 

Jared Schroeder, Southern Methodist 

Discussant 

Kyser Lough, Georgia 

Topic IV — Journalistic Frontiers: An Industry Moves 

Forward in Uncertain Times 

01-0900-18 • For People, For Policy: Journalists’ 

Perceptions of Peace Journalism* 

Meagan Doll, Washington 

Wednesday

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01-0900-19 • Journalists as Platypuses? — Understanding 

the Hysteresis and Habitus of Media Startups 

Matthew Chew, Nanyang Technological 

01-0900-20 • [EA] The Best of Times, the Worst of 

Times: The Impact of Covid-19 on Digital Subscriptions 

Hsiang Iris Chyi, Texas at Austin 

01-0900-21 • [EA] Busking the News: Metajournalistic 

Discourse and Author-Audience Relationships on 

Substack 

Rowan McMullen Cheng, Minnesota 

01-0900-22 • [EA] Evaluating the Effects of Solutions 

and Constructive Journalism: A Systematic 

Review of Audience-focused Research 

Karen McIntyre, Virginia Commonwealth 

and Kyser Lough, Georgia 

01-0900-23 • [EA] The State of Online News Advertising 

Margaret McAlexander, Memphis 

Discussant 


* Third Place Student Paper Award Winner 

Topic V — Staffing the Newsroom 

01-0900-24 • Elephant in the Room: A Study of the 

Impact of Emotional Experiences on Burnout Among 

Chinese Reporters 

Lei Guo, Nebraska Omaha 

01-0900-25 • How Newspapers’ Social Media Editors in 

Bangladesh Use Official Social Media Accounts 

Ahmed Shatil Alam, Oklahoma 

and Wahida Alam, New Age 

01-0900-26 • Post-Ghosting: The Depletion of Local 

Government Coverage After a County’s 

Newspapers Became ‘Ghosts’ 

Andrea Lorenz Nenque, North Carolina-Chapel Hill 

01-0900-27 • Intermedia Agenda Setting during the 

COVID-19 Pandemic: A Computational Analysis of 

China’s Online News 

Hanxiao Wang, Nanjing Normal 

and Jian Shi, Syracuse 

01-0900-28 • Auditing Whiteness: Structural Barriers to 

Antiracist Newsrooms 

Andrea Wenzel, Temple 

01-0900-29 • [EA] “Without a Fixer, It is Just an Idea, 

but with a Fixer, It Will be a Story”: Bangladeshi Local 

News Producers’ Perspectives on their Work and Extant 

Challenges 

Sohana Nasrin, Bobbie Foster, 

and Md Mahfuzul Haque, Maryland 

Discussant 

David Wolfgang, Colorado State 


abstract. 

9 to 10:30 a.m. / W009 

Public Relations Division 


Top Papers: Open Competition; Newsom 

Competition; Race in Public Relations Award 

Winner 


Hyejoon Rim, Minnesota 

Top Open Papers 

Communicating the Big Picture with Employees: The 

Impacts of CEO Vision Communication on Employee 

Engagement* 

Yufan “Sunny” Qin, Alexis Fitzsimmons, 

Eve Heffron, and Marcia DiStaso, Florida 

Public Expectations of Government Pandemic-Crisis 

Communication What and How to Communicate during 

the COVID-19 Pandemic** 

Sora Kim, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 

Relational Tensions and Publics during Disasters: 

Investigating Organizational Relationships 

Ethnographically*** 

Anita Atwell Seate, Brooke Liu, 

Samantha Stanley, Yumin Yan, 

and Allison Chatham, Maryland 

Newsom Award 

Public Relations and Sustainability across the African 

Continent: Using Afro-Centric Philosophies to 

Remember What’s Been ‘Forgotten or Lost’ 


and Eric Kwame Adae, Drake 

Race in Public Relations Award 

The Concentric Firestorm: A Qualitative Study of Black 

Lives Matter Activism and the COVID-19 Pandemic 

Tiffany Gallicano, Olivia Lawless, 

Abagail Higgins, Samira Shaikh, 

and Sara Levens, North Carolina, Charlotte 

Intersecting Identities Award 

Can CEO Activism be Good for the Organization? The 

Way CEO Activism on Sexual Orientation Equality 

Achieves High Young Employee Work Engagement 

Jie Jin, Florida 

Discussant 

Bey-Ling Sha, California State, Fullerton 

* First Place Open Competition Paper 

** Second Place Open Competition Paper 

*** Third Place Open Competition Paper


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9 to 10:30 a.m. / W010 

Scholastic Journalism Division 


Honors’ Lecture 

Guest Lecturer 

Lyle Olson, South Dakota State 

The AEJMC Scholastic Journalism Division is proud to 

recognize Lyle D. Olson as our 2021 Honors Lecturer. 

As a longtime division member and a life-long friend to 

scholastic media, no one is more deserving of this award 

than Lyle. This summer Lyle retired as the founding 

director of the School or Communication and Journalism 

at South Dakota State University, a position he has held 

since 2018. He’s been a faculty member or administrator 

at South Dakota State since 1989 and will now be professor 

emeritus. 

His service to this division and the scholastic journalists 

we serve is extensive. He’s judged contests for the 

Columbia Scholastic Press Association and the South 

Dakota High School Press Association and served as 

newsletter editor for our division from 1991 to 1997 and 

division head from 1997 to 1999. His awards include 

the Distinguished Service Award from the South Dakota 

Newspaper Association, out Division’s own David 

Adams Journalism Educator of the Year Award and the 

top faculty paper author for the division in 1993, 1994 

and 2000. Please enjoy the 2021 Scholastic Journalism 

Division Honors Lecture by Lyle Olson. 

audiences have been riveted to COVID coverage and to 

political reporting; younger audiences have fixated on 

news of street violence, police brutality against protesters, 

and the ongoing story of Black men and women killed 

by police in urban centers. This panel will explore an 

underlying thread in all this coverage: empathy woven 

into coverage or as an outcome of coverage in narrative, 

photo and video news. 

9 to 11 a.m. / W012 



Business Session 

AEJMC Presidential Committee 

on Career Development 


Hong Cheng, Loyola Chicago 

and Herman Howard, Angelo State 

Panelists 

David D. Perlmutter, Texas Tech 

Sabine Baumann, Jade 

Steve Bien-Aimé, Northern Kentucky 

Laura Castañeda, Southern California 

Makana Chock, Syracuse 

Tori Smith Ekstrand, North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

Amy Mitchell, Pew Research Center 

Rachel Mourão, Michigan State 

Frank Russell, California State, Fullerton 

Federico Subervi, Wisconsin-Madison 

Wednesday 

9 to 10:30 a.m. / W011 


and Media Ethics Division 


Ask Me That Another Way: Empathy on the 

Frontlines of News about COVID, Police Brutality, 

and Weather Disasters 


Michael Longinow, Biola 

Panelists 

Christy Vines, IDEOS 

Tamara J. Welter, Biola 

Antje Glück, Bournemouth University, U.K. 

Clarke Finney, KENS5, co-host, It’s a Great Day SA 

Audiences in the U.S., over the last year, have begun to 

care about news again — but for different reasons. Older 

9 to 10:30 a.m. / W013 

Chinese Communication Association 

Research Panel Session 

The Impact of Social Media and Smartphone Use: 

Evidence from Chinese Societies 


Yong Volz, Missouri 

Panelists 

Should I Click the Like Button for My Colleague? 

Domesticating the Social Media Affordance in the 

Workplace 

Hongjun Zhu 

and Weishan Miao, Chinese Academy 

of Social Sciences

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Exploring the Effects of Dialogic Communication 

and Employee–Organization Relationships During 

Crises: Empirical Evidence from the United States 

and China 

Xiang Meng 

and Yuan Wang, City University of Hong Kong 

and Yang Cheng, North Carolina State 

Does Social Media Use by Government Authorities 

Increase Public Trust in Government? Evidence from 

China amid the COVID-19 Pandemic 

Lin Zhang, Chen Li 

and Yang Su, Shanghai Jiao Tong University 

Gaps in Fake News Risk Perception and Combating 

Measure Preferences 

Xia Zheng, Indiana 

and Yanqin Lu, Bowling Green State 

Predictors of Chinese Adolescents’ Smartphone 

Addiction: A Moderated-Mediation Model 

Bin Shen, Fudan University; 

Fan Wang, East China Normal University; 

Shaojing Sun, Fudan University; 

and Yue Liu, East China Normal University 

Discussant 

Sunny Xun Liu, Stanford 

Drawing on different theoretical and methodological 

approaches, the panelists examine the impact of social 

media and smartphone uses in organizations, schools and 

public contexts in Chinese societies. 

9 to 10:30 a.m. / W014 

International Association for Literary Journalism Studies 

(IALJS) 


Activist Narrative Journalism: Aesthetics 

and Politics of Alternative Media 


David O. Dowling, Iowa 

Panelists 

Benjamin Franklin: Hoaxer or Pioneer? 

Mark Canada, Indiana University Kokomo 

Where Journalism and Activism Meet: A Historical 

Perspective 

Nancy L. Roberts, University at Albany, 

SUNY 

Writing the Revolution: Red Power Rhetoric 

in Akwesasne Notes 

John Coward, Tulsa 

“Social Media: A Voice to the African Voiceless to 

Challenge Negative Western Media Representation 

Frankline Mantanji, Iowa 

With the rise of alternative media and independent coverage 

of politics and protest movements comes a new wave 

of storytelling methods and technologies. This panel 

offers a reassessment of journalism and/as activism from 

print to the digital age. 

11a.m. to 12:30 p.m. / W015 

Communication Technology and Media Ethics Divisions 


“The Media Is So Biased”: Teaching Journalists 

to Reveal (& Defend) their Values 



Panelist 

Danielle K. Brown, Minnesota, Twin Cities 

Julie Mastrine, AllSides 

Eve Pearlman, Spaceship Media 

Anita Varma, Santa Clara 

11a.m. to 12:30 p.m. / W016 

Cultural and Critical Studies and Media Management, 

Economics, and Entrepreneurship Divisions 


Newsroom Workers Unite 


Krishnan Vasudevan, Maryland 

Panelists 

Errol Salamon, University of Huddersfield 

Jennifer Proffitt, Florida State 




Carolina Miranda, Los Angeles Times 

When Gawker’s editorial staff decided to unionize in 

2015, labor reporter Hamilton Nolan painted a picture 

of journalists who felt neither particularly exploited nor 

underpaid, but who were moved by a sense of collective 

responsibility. They wanted to lead the way as “first major 

online media company to organize.” Four months earlier, 

The Washington Post’s Lydia DePillis had declared 

unions in digital news media organizations a failure. She


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blamed, among other factors, young journalists’ shifting 

identities, their unfamiliarity with unions, and the fact 

that digital media’s workforce was highly educated and 

appeared to identify more with management than with 

the working class. Yet, by the spring of the same year, 

Gawker’s decision to organize was being described as 

the possible beginning of a new era of unionization, 

at least in digital media. The reasons seemed obvious: 

decades of relentless “strip mining” of news organizations; 

a decimated, underpaid workforce, struggling to 

adjust to shifts in production routines and market logics; 

and the seemingly endless rounds of layoffs, mergers and 

downsizing. Digital newsroom labor has created fertile 

ground for unionization. Big data, the use of algorithms, 

and audience analytics are not just changing routines 

and practices but are also producing new divisions of 

labor, new relationships and divisions of power within 

the newsroom. This panel will bring together research 

on the current wave of unionization in U.S. newsrooms, 

situating it in a historical context. 

Evangelical Erasure?: Digital Communications 

Technology and the Memory of Rachel Held Evans 

Karlin Andersen, Pennsylvania State 

[EA] Dorothy Barclay: Mediating Parenting Advice 

Diane Prusank, Westfield State 

Discussant 

Christina Littlefield, Pepperdine 


abstract. 

This session is the History Division’s high density paper 

session. 

11a.m. to 12:30 p.m. / W018 

Law and Policy Division and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, 

Transgender and Queer Interest Group 

Wednesday 

11a.m. to 12:30 p.m. / W017 



High Density Paper Session 


Cayce Myers, Virginia Tech 

The 1980s and the War on Drugs: The Media’s 

Declaration Against Hollywood? 

Andrew Daws, Alabama 

Civil War Generals for President: Press Coverage of 

Rutherford B. Hayes and James A. Garfield During the 

Elections of 1876 and 1880 

Jack Breslin, Iona 

[EA] The Image of Heroines in Advertisements of 

Shanghai’s Martial Arts Films During 1920s-1930’s 

Huang Wenlu, National Chengchi University 

Discussant: 

Erika Pribanic-Smith, Texas, Arlington 

[EA] An Attempted Coup on King Coal: How The 

Tennessean Helped Reshape Discourse of Coal Mining 

Anthony Cepak, Tennessee, Chattanooga 

Community Divisions and Fractures in Print: Institutional 

and Student Media Coverage of a 1927 High School 

Student Strike 

Caitlin Cieslik-Miskimen, Idaho 

Discussant 

Ken Ward, Pittsburg State 


Librarians as Lawbreakers: Criminalization of Story 

Hours and Other Attempts to Restrict Library 

Materials and Services 


Karen Markin, Rhode Island 

Panelists 

Vera Eidelman, staff attorney, ACLU’s Speech, 

Privacy & Technology Project, Brooklyn, NY 

Jonathan Hamilt, executive director, Drag Queen 

Story Hour, New York City 

Jason Shepard, California State, Fullerton 


11a.m. to 12:30 p.m. / W019 



On Misinformation and Fact-checking: 

An Empirical and Theoretical Imperative 


Tamar Wilner, Texas at Austin 

Attention Convergence and Narrative Coalescence: 

The Impact of the US Presidential Election on the 

Generational Gap in Online News Use 

Chris Chao Su, Boston University

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Who Conducts Fact Checking and Does It Matter?: 

Examining the Antecedents and Consequences of Factchecking 

Behavior in Hong Kong 

Stella Chia 

and Fangcao Lu, City University of Hong Kong 

and Al Gunther, Wisconsin-Madison 

Avoiding Real News, Believing in Fake News? Investigating 

Pathways from Fake News Exposure to Misbelief 

Edson Tandoc Jr. 

and Hye Kyung Kim, Nanyang Technological 

Misinformation and News Verification: Why Users Fact 

Check Suspect Content 

Erik Bucy, Texas Tech 

and Duncan Prettyman, Colorado Technical 

Do All Types of Warning Labels Work on Flagging 

Misinformation? The Effects of Warning Labels on Share 

Intention of COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation 

Bingbing Zhang, Pennsylvania State 

and Alexander Moe, SUNY Brockport 

Discussant 

Jay Hmielowski, Florida 

11a.m. to 12:30 p.m. / W020 

Minorities and Communication and Electronic News 

Divisions 


The Black Effect: How Podcasting Could Help 

Diversify Our Students’ Storytelling and Prepare 

Them for the Podcasting Marketplace 


Laura K. Smith, South Carolina 

Panelists 

Kim Fox, American University of Cairo 

Kelli Boling, Nebraska-Lincoln 

Bryan Jenkins, Howard 

Taylor Jennings-Brown, Meredith Corporation 

11a.m. to 12:30 p.m. / W021 



Amplifying Voices and Building Connections: A 

Discussion with HBCU Public Relations Educators 



Panelists 

Janice E. Smith, Morgan State 

Calvin L. Hall, North Carolina Central 

Candace Parrish, Sacred Heart 

David Marshall, Morgan State 

Bettye A. Grable, Florida A&M 

In 2018 the Commission for Education in Public Relations 

published a report on the status of education and practice 

in the field (Commission, 2018). A main area of immediate 

attention was defined as a lack of representation from 

African-Americans practicing in Public Relations (PR). 

The reasons why there are a lack of African-Americans 

(AA) and/or black, indigenous, and/or people of color 

practing in the field need to be further explored from 

many viewpoints --including discrimination, opportunity, 

and education. Considering the education and research 

focus of this conference, the panel being proposed will 

focus on the educational aspect in amplifying voices of 

educators whose institutions historically and inherently 

produce diversity into the field of PR. 

11a.m. to 12:30 p.m. / W022 

Visual Communication 

and Newspaper and Online News Divisions 


Best of Design Competition 


Shannon Zenner, Elon 

and Ross Taylor, Colorado at Boulder 

Faculty Division 

First Place 

Animal Abecedary Instagram GIFs 

Leslie Haines, Middle Tennessee State 

Second Place 

1 for All Celebrity Campaign 

Leslie Haines, Middle Tennessee State 

Third Place 

IrvineStandard_April2020 

Philip Loubere, Middle Tennessee State 

Student Division: Visual Identity and Branding 

First Place 

Olympus Playing Cards 

Laura Angle, Syracuse 

Second Place 

Botanical Brew Spread 

Sydnie Tramontina, South Carolina 

Third Place 

Top Bunk Bucha 

Catherine Nester, Elon


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Best in Illustration 

How College Sports Undermine Athletes 

Marina Fernandez de la Cuesta, Syracuse 

Best in Logo 

Personal Branding Business Cards 

Catherine Nester, Elon 

Best in Packaging 

Yum Yum Sauce 


Best in Stationary 

Sigmund Freud 

Shannon Kirkpatrick, Syracuse 

Best in Environmental 

Hampton_Beezer’s Identity System 

Sabrina Hampton, South Carolina 

Student Division: Editorial, Interactive and Motion 

Design 

First Place 

Rock The Vote 

Ryan Richson, South Carolina 

Second Place 

Not Your Dad’s Protein 

Rachel Cifarelli, Elon 

Third Place 

At War With Yourself 

Wesley Harwood, North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

Best in Cover Design 

Garnet & Black Magazine Cover 

Zhané Bradley, South Carolina 

Best in Editorial Spread or Feature Design 

Interactive Tarot Card Spread 

Emily Schoonover, South Carolina 

Best in Infographic Design 

Narwhals 

Gina Flow, North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

Best in Motion Graphics/Design 

Animating Queer History: Gay Liberation 

Michael Gawlik, North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

Best in Printed Annual Reports, Brochures, and/or 

Catalog 

Global Carolina Annual Report 

Zhané Brandley and Thomas Anderson, South 

Carolina 

Best in Website/App Page Design (non-interactive) 

Humanizing Journalism 

Lauren Hemmert, Brigham Young 

Student Division — Advertising Design 

First Place 

Quaranchella 


Second Place 

Girls Who Code a Step Behind 

Sam Luo, Art Director, Syracuse 

Third Place 

Integrated Burger King Have it the Real Way 

Rachel Hayashi, Art Director, Syracuse 

Best in Direct 

final351b 

Annie Le, Southern California 

Best in Integrated Campaign 

Fluent Fare Designs 

Daniel Rhys Allson, South Carolina 

Best in Video 

kinderyou 

Alexis Zimmerman, Southern California 

Best in Experiential 

Experiential CocaCola CashCan 

Maia Baptista, Art Director, Syracuse 

Best in Print 

McDonald’s McDelivery Print 

Sam Luo, Art Director, Syracuse 

Best in PSA 

Digital Accessibility 

Caroline Moore, Libby Breeze, 

and Sarah Massengale, South Carolina 

Best in Interactive & Social Media 

Apple PAL Protect Asian Lives 

Rachel Hayashi, Art Director, Syracuse 

Best in Poster Design 

Go Sustainable Posters 

Rachel Cifarelli, Elon 

Student Division — Photography 

First Place 

Clinically (in)Significant 

T.J. Mesyn, Michigan State 

Second Place 

Winner’s Circle 

Lillly Marcadis, South Carolina 

Third Place 

The Last Ski Season 

Gavin Liddell, Syracuse 

Best in Journalism Portrait 

Bob Weir and Wolf Bros. 

Todd F. Michalek, Syracuse 

Best in Journalism Still 

Vote Here 

Lilly Marcadis, South Carolina 

Best in Photography Essay 

Stepping Up for Justice 

Renée Deemer 

and Laura Oliverio, Syracuse 

Best in Commercial Still 

Food Photography-Ice Cream 

Grayson Meadors, Elon 

Recognition and presentation of all winners of 2021 

Best of Design competition. 

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11a.m. to 12:30 p.m. / W023 

AEJMC Council of Affiliates 


Navigating the Seas of the Academy to Become 

the Captain 


Jennifer Greer, Kentucky 

Panelists 

Lucy Dalglish, Maryland, 


11a.m. to 12:30 p.m. / W024 

Commission on the Status of Women 

and International Communication Division 


An International Look at Women in Podcasting 


Sally Ann Cruikshank, Middle Tennessee State 

Panelists 

Madeleine Baran, Host, “In the Dark” Podcast 

Martina Castro, Founder & CEO, Adonde Media 

Stacey Copeland, Project Manager and supervising 

producer, Amplify Podcast Network 

This panel will take a look at the accomplishments and 

challenges of women in podcasting from an international 

perspective. 

11a.m. to 12:30 p.m. / W025 

Entertainment Studies Interest Group 


ESIG Top Research Paper Panel 


Brad Limov, Texas at Austin 

License to Angst: A Study of Female Characters in 

Christopher Nolan Films* 

Nathan Spencer, Memphis 

Battle Royale and Addictive Gaming: The Mediating 

Role of Player Motivations** 

Audrey Halverson, Kris Boyle, 

and Kevin John, Brigham Young 

A “Soul” Emerges When AI Meets Anime via Hologram: 

A Qualitative Study on Users of New Anime-Style 

Hologram Social Robot “Hupo” 

Jindong Liu 

and Biying Wu, Chinese University of Hong Kong 

More Contributors, Shorter Continuance? The Paradox 

of Entertainment Contents Contribution 

Wei Lin, Tsinghua University 

Discussant 

Waleed Rashidi, California State, Fullerton 

* Top Student Paper Award Winner 

** Top Faculty Paper Award Winner 

This session showcases the top four papers submitted to 

the Entertainment Studies Interest Group. 

11a.m. to 12:30 p.m. / W026 

Magazine Media and Scholastic Journalism Divisions 


Tips for Winning Collegiate Journalism Contests 



Panelists 

Kim Bissell, Alabama 

Jessica Clary, Virginia Commonwealth 

Jon Glass, Syracuse 

Carol Holstead, Kansas 

Mark Potts, magazine and newspaper editor, 

media entrepreneur and occasional professor 

Chandra Turner, founder, Ed2010 and Talent Fairy 

11a.m. to 12:30 p.m. / W027 


Communication and News Engagement Day Committee 


News Engagement Day Committee Meeting 


Paula M. Poindexter, chair, News Engagement Day 

Committee; Texas at Austin 

News Engagement Day, Oct. 5, 2021 plans will be finalized. 

New NED TikTok Competition will be discussed. 

2021 News Audience Research Paper Award Winner 

will be announced and a new initiative to increase news 

engagement and combat disinformation will be proposed.


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1 to 2:30 p.m. / W028 

1 to 2:30 p.m. / W030 

Communicating Science, Health, Environment, and Risk 

and Political Communication Divisions 


Assisting the Student in Crisis: How to Identify 

Resources, Balance Expectations and Needs 

and Support Well-being for Students Facing 

Difficult Challenges 


Ashley Anderson, Colorado State 

Panelists 

Deni Chamberlin, Iowa State 

Michelle Dusseau, Central Florida 

Teresa Mastin, Michigan State 

Katherine McComas, Cornell 

History and Communication Technology Divisions 


History of Video Gaming: Moral Panics and News 

Controversy in the Storytelling Medium 


Laine Nooney, New York University 

Panelists 

Teresa Lynch, Ohio State 


Gregory Perreault, Appalachian State 

Dmitri Williams, Southern California 

1 to 2:30 p.m. / W0031 

Wednesday 

The mental well-being of students in post-secondary 

institutions has been a growing concern. Major external 

events, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, natural disasters, 

and heightened profiles of events steeped in racism, 

provide additional challenges to navigating the college 

degree. This panel explores different case studies and 

resources for addressing such issues. It identifies best 

practices for helping students in crisis mode, while also 

determining how to assist students handling ongoing – or 

long-term — threats and concerns 

1 to 2:30 p.m. / W029 

Electronic News Division and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, 

Transgender and Queer Interest Group 


Raising Awareness: Teaching Cultural Competencies, 

Diversity, and Inclusion in the J-School Classroom 


Rachel Grant, Florida 

Panelists 

Jesús Ayala, California State Fullerton 

Harrison Hove, Florida 

Shamarria Morrison, WPSD-TV 

Aphrodite Salas, Concordia 



Media Matter: From Pandemic to Social Movements 



Topic I — Covid, Vaccination, and Media 

Information Verification and Discussion Networks as 

Pandemic Coping Mechanisms: A Cross-Country Study 

Chih-Hui Lai, Academia Sinica 

and Tang Tang, Kent State 

[EA] Fighting the Infodemic War on COVID-19 Vaccine: 

An International Comparative Analysis of Factchecking 

Organizations’ Impact on Facebook and Dialogic 

Engagement 

Ioana Coman, Texas Tech 

International Migrants and COVID-19 Vaccinations: 

Social Media, Motivated Information Management & 

Vaccination Willingness 

Hyunjin Seo, Yuchen Liu, Muhammad Ittefaq, 

Fatemeh Shayesteh, Ursula Kamanga, 

an Annalise Baines, Kansas 

Discussant 

Ruth Moon, Louisiana State 

Topic II — Ethics and Perception about Media 

What is Ethical in Entrepreneurial Journalism? 

Fitria Andayani, Missouri 

[EA] Two Side of the Same Coin: How Violent Incidents 

Have Opposing Media Coverages 

Carlos Davalos, Wisconsin-Madison

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[EA] Tunisian and U.S. Journalism Students: 

A Comparison of Journalism Degree Motivations 

and Role Conceptions 

Brian J. Bowe, Western Washington; 

The American University in Cairo; 

Robin Blom, Ball State; 

Carolyn Nielsen, Western Washington; 

and Arwa Kooli, I’Institut de Presse et des Sciences 

de I’Information 

Discussant 

Zhaoxi Liu, Trinity 

Topic III — Social Media, Social Movements, 

and Diplomacy 

[EA] Normative Expectations for Social Media Platforms 

Natalie Jomini Stroud 

and Tamar Wilner, Texas at Austin 

[EA] The Anti-Execution Movement of Iranians on Social 

Media 

Shugofa Dastgeer, Texas Christian 

and Fatemeh Shayesteh, Kansas 

[EA] Digital Public Diplomacy and Social Media: 

A Content Analysis of Foreign Embassy Tweets 

Imran Hasnat and Elanie Steyn, Oklahoma 

Discussant 

Pavica Sheldon Alabama, Huntsville 


abstract. 

1 to 2:30 p.m. / W032 


Panel Session 

Drag Queen Story Hour Featuring 

Harmonica Sunbeam 


Karen Markin, Rhode Island 

Speaker 

Harmonica Sunbeam, Drag Queen Story Hour, 

New York City 

1 to 2:30 p.m. / W033 

Magazine Media 



Taking the Long View: Journalism Steps Back 

From Daily Reporting 


Kevin Lerner, Marist 

Panelists 

Margie Mason, Asia Medical/Investigative Reporter, 

Associated Press 

Robin McDowell, Investigative Reporter, 

Associated Press 

Adrienne LaFrance, Executive Editor, The Atlantic 

Clara Jeffery, Editor-in-Chief, Mother Jones 

1 to 2:30 p.m. / W034 

Mass Communication and Society 

and Public Relations Divisions 


Information Patrolling: The Why and How 

Questions and Answers to Counteract Pseudo 

Information for Social Institutions 


Homero Gil de Zúñiga, Pennsylvania State / 

University of Salamanca 

Panelists 

Alessandro Lovari, University of Cagliari 

Chong-hyun Park, Sejong University 

Hyelim Lee, Oklahoma 

Myoung-Gi Chon, Auburn 

Luke A. Snyder, Oklahoma 

Yu Won Oh, Myoungji University 

Respondent 

Jeong-Nam Kim, Oklahoma


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1 to 2:30 p.m. / W035 

Media Ethics Division 



Media and Poverty 


Sandra L. Borden, Western Michigan 

Panelists 

Social Empathy + Compassion: Building Blocks for 

Poverty Coverage 

Ryan J. Thomas, Missouri 

Ruin Porn and Virtue Porn: Licensing How We Talk 

About Perceptions of Urban Decay 

Fred Vultee, Wayne State 

What about the Actors Involved in News about 

Poverty? Disrupting Determinist Accounts 

Isabel Awad, Erasmus University Rotterdam 

From Community Empowerment to Infrastructure 

Reinforcement: Exploring the Shifting Media 

Narrative on Indigent Health Policy from Reagan 

to Obama 

Danielle N. Gadson, Villanova 

Amplifying the Deliberative Agency of Indigenous 

Communities in Philippine News Media 

Athena Charanne Presto, National University 

of Singapore 

1 to 2:30 p.m. / W036 



Race, Ethnicity and Identity in the Profession 


Miya Williams Fayne, California State Fullerton 

“It’s Just as Whitewashed as Ever”: Social Media 

Sourcing as a Diversification Tool for Journalists* 

Danielle Deavours, University of Montevallo; 

Will Health, Alabama, Birmingham, 

and Ryan Broussard, Sam Houston State 

Latinas in Journalism: Examining their Biggest 

Challenges and Opportunities 

Jessica Retis, Arizona; Amara Aguilar 

and Laura Castaneda, Southern California 

[EA] Chronicling History: A Comparative Analysis of 

Newspaper Coverage Chronicling Hillary Clinton’s and 

Kamala Harris’s History-Making Moments 

Shaniece Bickham, Nicholls State 

Rockia Harris and Jinx Broussard, Louisiana State 

Combating the Angry Black Woman Stereotype at Work 

Through Demeanor and Praise 

Erin Perry, Wayne State 

Constructing and Negotiating Panethnic Professional 

Identity: The Case of theAsian American Journalists 

Association 

Yong Volz and Indah Setiawati, Missouri 

Discussant 

Dacia Pajé, Drexel 

* Top Faculty Paper, Third Place 


abstract. 

1 to 2:30 p.m. / W037 

Visual Communication Division 


Student Top Paper/ Role of Visual Artifacts 

in Various Mediums 


Yung Soo Kim, Kentucky 

Multimodal Analysis: Researching Short-form Videos 

and the Theatrical Practices* 

Yiting Wang, Hawai’i at Manoa - 

Crisis of Cosmopolitan Citizenship 

in Hong Sang-soo’s Films 

Jin Kim, The College of Saint Rose 

Video [Dis]Convergence and Discernable Logocentrism: 

Visual Journalists’ Experience During Video 

Implementation 

Christopher T. Assaf, Texas at Austin 

A Winning Combination: Effects of Visual Frames in 

Solutions Journalism Stories 

Jennifer Midberry, Lehigh; 

Danielle K. Brown, Minnesota, Twin Cities; 

Robert F. Potter, and Ryan Comfort, Indiana 

Discussant 

Tara Mortensen, South Carolina 

* Top Student Paper 

Wednesday

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1 to 2:30 p.m. / W038 

Community Journalism Interest Group 

and Media Managements, Economics and Entrepreneur 

ship Division 


Building the Walls: Paywalls and Reduced Print 

Schedules as Means to Maintain Profitability 


Burton Speakman, Kennesaw State 

Panelists 

Iris Chyi, Texas at Austin 

Dam Hee Kim, Arizona 

Christina Smith, Georgia College 

Jarvis DeBerry, Louisiana Illuminator 

Jennifer Larino, LEDE New Orleans 

This panel will explore the economic decisions of the 

media industry as it engages with strategies such as 

paywalls and reduce print schedules in order to manage 

economic pressures. It will include voices from both professional 

journalism and academia and will speak specifically 

to the economic decisions made by the former New 

Orleans Times Picayune. 

1 to 2:30 p.m. / W039 



Engaging Publics via Participatory Journalism 

on Social Media 


Mark Coddington, Washington and Lee 

Understanding Social Media in Journalism Practice: 

A Typology* 

Muhammad Fahad Humayun 

and Patrick Ferrucci, Colorado-Boulder 

Working Together? Contributing and Adopting 

Citizen Visuals from the Lens of Social Media Usage, 

Perception, and Visual Attributes** 

Deborah Chung, Hyun Ju Jeong 

and Yung Soo Kim, Kentucky 

[EA] Reacting to Black Lives Matter: Facebook 

Engagement with News Coverage During the Summer 

2020 Protests 

Jennifer Cox, Salisbury 

Discussant 

Mark Coddington, Washington and Lee 


abstract. 

* Top Paper Award 

** Second Place Paper Award 

1 to 2:30 p.m. / W040 

Sports Communication Interest Group 


Exploring the #Social and the Political in Sport 


Marion Hambrick, Louisville 

“Golden Spike”: Examining Atlanta United’s 

Communication Strategies and Brand 

Attributes from Launch to Kickoff* 

Maria Tsyruleva and Travis Bell, South Florida 

“A Manifestation of their City as a God”: Gritty Memes, 

the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election, and Online 

Representations of Home 

Virginia Harrison, Brandon Boatwright, 

and Joseph Bober, Clemson 

Construction of Mediated National Identity Through 

Sports Journalists Twitter Feed 

Muhammad Fahad Humayun, Colorado-Boulder 

[EA] From Prohibition to Promotion: Discursive Power 

in the Legalization of Sports Betting 

Brian Petrotta, Oklahoma 

Discussant 

Marion Hambrick, Louisville 


abstract. 

* Top Student/Faculty Paper


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1 to 2:30 p.m. / W041 


Communication 

1 to 2:30 p.m. / W043 

Society of Professional Journalists and Association for 

Education in Journalism and Mass Communication 


AEJMC Presidential Council of Affiliates Taskforce 


Paul Voakes, Colorado 

and Nancy Green, America’s Newspapers 

Panelists 

Tom Rosenstiel, American Press Institute 

P.J. Browning, Southern Newspaper 

Publishers Association 

Karla Gower, The Plank Center for Leadership 

in Public Relations 

Lucas Graves, Wisconsin-Madison 


Shuhua Zhou, Missouri 

1 to 2:30 p.m. / W042 

AEJMC Elected Standing Committee on Professional 

Freedom and Responsibility 


Hate/Free Speech 


Jerry Crawford, PF&R committee chair, Kansas 

Panelists 


Carolyn Bronstein, DePaul 

Anastasia Kononova, Michigan State 

Discussant 

Harrison Rosenthal, Kansas 

“The Intersection of individualism v. collectivism: hate 

speech moderation and community expectations and 

social media regulation.” Users come to social networks 

with certain expectations of their speech and expressive 

rights. 

Workshop Session 

SPJ-Google News Initiative Workshop 

on Effective Storytelling 


Deb Aikat, North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

Panelists 

Amara Aguilar, University of Southern California 


AEJMC is collaborating with the Society of Professional 

Journalists (SPJ) to host the SPJ Google News Initiative 

Media Storytelling workshop for media researchers and 

educators like you. Led by renowned experts from 

the SPJ and the Google News Initiative, this 90-minute 

workshop will explore effective storytelling using Google 

News Initiative tools. Participants will acquire storytelling 

strategies for teaching, research, storytelling, covering 

trending issues and beyond. We have meticulously 

designed this workshop to train media researchers and 

educators with Google News Initiative tools for research, 

trust and verification, and data visualization. The first half 

of the workshop will cover best practices in research and 

verification. In the second half, workshop participants 

will learn to examine trending issues, frame stories and 

visualize data. All workshop participants will receive 

access to Google News Initiative University Network 

curriculum and training materials/lesson plans to use in 

their teaching and research projects. Please download 

Google Chrome and have your Gmail account ready to 

go for this hands-on workshop. In our commitment to 

serving AEJMC conference attendees, we have waived 

workshop fees. 

If you plan to attend, email Deb Aikat, University of North 

Carolina at Chapel Hill (da@unc.edu) with “2021 SPJ- 

Google workshop” in the subject line. We will include 

you in our growing list of pre-registered participants and 

email you a prep list for this workshop. The workshop is 

free, but we encourage you to sign up to attend. Limited 

seats. 

Wednesday

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3 to 4:30 p.m. / W044 


Communication 


2020-21 Council of Divisions Business Meeting I 


Katie Foss, Middle Tennessee State, CoDV Chair 

and Jan Lauren Boyles, Iowa State, CoDV Vice Chair 

All heads and vice heads of the AEJMC DIG groups are 

required to attend this meeting. 

3 to 4:30 p.m. / W045 



Advertising Division Outstanding Papers 


Min Xiao, Wichita State 

Exploring the Influence of Advertising Spokesperson’s 

Racial Identity and Product Type Endorsed on Consumer 

Decision-Making* 

Louvins Pierre and Carolyn Lin, Connecticut 

Using Funny Memes in Social Media Advertising: The 

Moderating Role of Bandwagon Cues** 

Guolan Yang, Oakland 

Consumer Responses to CSR during the Pandemic: 

Investigating the Role of Context/Cause Fit and 

Attribution of Motives in Cause-related Marketing*** 

Huatian Zheng, Anqi Lin, Yixin Guo, 

and Ziyi Pan, Renmin University of China 

Humanity for Sale! A Textual Analysis of Zain’s “Mr. 

President” Commercial**** 

Raghad Sonbul, Southern Mississippi 

Discussant 

Sara Champlin, North Texas 

* Second Place Open Competition Paper Award 

** Third Place Open Competition Paper Award 

*** Second Place Student Paper Award 

**** Third Place Student Paper Award 

3 to 4:30 p.m. / W046 


Division 


Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice 

in Communicating Science, Health, Environment 

and Risk Topics 


Jody Chin Sing Wong, Buffalo 

[EA] Beyond a National Sample: Contextualizing 

Underserved Communities’ Vaccine Hesitancy 

During COVID-19 

Tianduo Zhang 

and Lisa Paulin, North Carolina Central 

Cultural Competence in Health Communication: 

A Concept Explication* 

Evgeniia Belobrovkina, Missouri 

Empowering Migrant Domestic Workers During Public 

Health Crises Through Integrated Connectedness to 

Storytelling Networks 

Jeffry Oktavianus, City University of Hong Kong 

“La Piedra Rosetta” Content Analysis of Health-specific 

Stories on Genetic Testing from Spanish-language News 

Outlets 

Daniel Chavez-Yenter, Utah; 

Huntsman Cancer Institute 

and Avery Holton, Alexis Vega, Ginger Zamora 

and Kim Kaphingst, Utah 

[EA] Scapegoated and Marginalized: European Press 

Coverage of the Roma During the COVID-19 Pandemic 

Adina Schneeweis, Oakland 

Discussant 

Mugur Geana, Kansas 

* Third Place Top Student Paper 


abstract. 

3 to 4:30 p.m. / W047 

Communication Theory and Methodology Division 


New Measures and New Approaches 


Rosie Jahng, Wayne State

The School of Journalism and Media is excited 

to announce five new faculty members will be 

joining us this fall. Their thoughtful expertise will 

strengthen our professional training, research and 

community engagement. 

ANDREW BUTTERS 

Associate Professor 

of Practice 

RAOUL HERNANDEZ 


of Instruction 

JOHN SCHWARTZ 

Professor of Practice 

RAYMOND THOMPSON 


ANITA VARMA 

Assistant Professor

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Measuring Sexist Stereotypes about Female Reporters: 

Scale Development and Validity* 

T. Franklin Waddell, Jessica Sparks, 

and Chelsea Moss, Florida 

APL: A Python Library for Computational Aesthetic 

Analysis of Visual Media in Communication Research 

Yilang Peng, Georgia 

The Media Use Model: Using Constraint Satisfaction 

and Coherence to Explain Media Processes and Effects 

Jennifer Hoewe, Purdue 

and David Ewoldsen, Michigan State 

Science of Open (Communication) Science: Toward 

an Evidence-Driven Understanding of Quality Criteria 

in Communication Research 

Isabelle Freiling, Vienna; Nicole Krause, 

Kaiping Chen, 

and Dietram A. Scheufele, Wisconsin-Madison 

Discussant 

Jörg Matthes, Vienna 

* Third Place Open Competition Paper 

3 to 4:30 p.m. / W048 



Diversity: Race and Gender 


Shearon Roberts, Xavier of Louisiana 

Where There Was a Will, AEJ Made a Way for Diversity 

George L. Daniels, Alabama 

Race Films and the Black Press: Representation 

and Resistance* 

Carolina Velloso, Maryland 

“The Making of “The Young Budgeter:” The American 

Girl Magazine’s Role in a Girl Scout’s Life During the 

Great Depression** 

Tamar Gregorian, Tulane 

[EA] By Far the Best of Our Foreign Representatives: 

Vira B. Whitehouse and the Origins of Public 

Diplomacy 

Ayla Oden and John M. Hamilton, Louisiana State 

Discussant 

Jennifer Moore, Minnesota, Duluth 

* Third Place Student Paper 

** Third Place Faculty Paper 


abstract. 

3 to 4:30 p.m. / W049 



Promises and Perils in Media Portrayal, Politics 

and Activism 


Dorothy Bland, North Texas 

Topic I — Collective Action and New Media 

Understanding the Motivations of Asian American 

Publics’ Collective Actions Against Racism During 

the COVID-19 Pandemic 

Yeunjae Lee, Weiting Tao, and Jo-Yun Li, Miami 

Perceptions of COVID-19 and BLM Protesting on Twitter 

Tanya Gardner, Wei Sun, 

and Carolyn Stroman, Howard 

Discussant 

Gheni Platenburg, Auburn 

Topic II — Minorities and Health and Advertising 

Mass Media Coverage of the Unprecedented Events 

of 2020 Took a Toll on Black People’s Mental Health 

Conditions 

Jaquela Chalise Macklin, Alabama 

How Ethnic News Helps Shape Presidential Evaluations 

among Chinese Americans During the Covid-19 

Pandemic* 

Jiehua Zhang, Alabama 

[EA]Reviving the Yellow Peril Digitally: Anti-Asian Hate 

During the COVID-19 Pandemic on Twitter 

Xue Gong, Shanshan Jiang, 

and Fangjing Tu, Wisconsin-Madison 

600 & Rising’s Quest to Improve Diversity in the 

Advertising Profession 

Teresa Mastin, Alina Freeman 

and Susan Reilly, Michigan State 

Discussant 


Topic III — News Coverage and Audiences 

[EA] How coverage of deportation at the U.S./Mexico 

Border Constructs Common Knowledge 

Tania Ganguli, Minnesota, Twin Cities 

[EA] A New Conceptual Model for Understanding 

Interracial Communication Apprehension: 

How Does Racial Representation in Television- 

Entertainment Media Impact Interracial Conversation? 

Farrah Youn-Heil and Yan Jin, Georgia 

Discussant 

Martin Riedl, Texas at Austin


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Topic IV — Identity and Minorities in Communication 

The Hair Dilemma of Black Female Newscasters: 

Personal Preferences VersusProfessional Pressures in 

Picking Styles 

Robert Richardson, Texas at Austin 

[EA] Shared Identity Endorsement Narratives in Political 

Campaigns: A Framework for studying celebrity 

endorsements of minority politicians 

Madhavi Reddi, North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

Discussant 

Emmanuel Nwachukwu, Savannah State 

* Third Place, Top Student Paper 


abstract 

3 to 4:30 p.m. / W050 


and Community Journalism Interest Group 


Forging a Local News Media Ecosystem 

Research Agenda 


Susan Keith, Rutgers 

and Christina Smith, Georgia College 

Panelists 

Black Weekly Newspapers: Research Conundrums, 

Concerns, Connections 


Local TV News: Examining Professional Norms 

and Routines 

Danielle Deavours, Montevallo 

Local Newspapers: More than Just News 

Nick Mathews, Minnesota 

Nonprofit and Public Media Ecosystems Today 

Christoph Mergerson, Rutgers 

Local Media’s Voice: The Role of Community 

and Novelty in Radio Production 

Kyle Miller, South Dakota 

The goal of this panel is to forge a research agenda for 

the different kinds of journalistic media that are part of 

the 21st century news ecosystem. Start-up, digital native 

news organizations, including those focusing on historically 

underserved communities, community news initiatives, 

and evolving forms of public media augment and/or 

compete with legacy commercial news media, traditional 

Black and ethnic media, and longstanding alternative 

news sources. Although a number of researchers have 

examined facets of these emerging forms of local news 

media, work remains to be done to understand how they 

support, critique, or challenge more established outlets. 

3 to 4:30 p.m. / W051 



Breaking Borders: How J-schools Should and 

(Shouldn’t) Fill Gaps Left by Shrinking Newsrooms 


Laura Castañeda, Southern California, Annenberg 

Panelists 

Teri Finneman, Kansas 

Jeff Fruit, Kent State 

Rebecca Haggerty, Southern California Annenberg 

Christina Leonard, Arizona State 

3 to 4:30 p.m. / W052 



Visual Framing in Visual Communication Practices 


Tara Mortensen, South Carolina 

Crisis Management in this Visual Era: How People 

Perceive a Crisis-hit Brand Through News Media Pictures 

Mohammad Ali and Dennis Kinsey, Syracuse 

Paradise or Propaganda? Jack Delano’s FSA images 

of Public Housing in Chicago 

Robin Hoecker, DePaul 

Cross-Platform Visual Framing: Climate Visuals on News 

Websites and Twitter 

Yimeng Sun, New York University; 

Hiu Yan Ping, Northeastern; 

Lei Guo, Boston; 

Boqi Chen, North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

and David Assefa Tofu, Boston 

[EA] Visualizing Criminal Jury Trials: A Quantitative 

Content Analysis of Images in U.S. News Outlets 

Umberto Famulari, Lesa Hatley Major; 

and Osman Mohamed Osman, Indiana-Bloomington 

Discussant 



abstract. 

Wednesday

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3 to 4:30 p.m. / W053 


and College Media Association 


Issues Facing the Campus Press 


Jean Norman, Weber State 

Campus Pluralism 

Will Heath, Alabama at Birmingham; 

Nick Buzzelli and Wilson Lowrey, Alabama 

An Analysis of Student Newspaper Web and Social 

Media Presence 

Bob Bergland, Northwest Missouri State; 

Christopher Evans, Illinois 

and Madeline Mapes, Northwest Missouri State 

Maintaining and Framing: A Multi-Method Examination 

of Award-Winning Student Newspaper Tweets 

Emily Dolan and Brittany Fleming, Slippery Rock 

The College Newsroom amid COVID: A Statistical 

Assessment of Advisers and their Work in College 

Newsrooms in 2020 

Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver, Florida International; 

Elizabeth Smith, Pepperdine; 

and Jody Kleinberg Biehl, New York at Buffalo 

3 to 4:30 p.m. / W054 

Commission on the Status of Women, Graduate Student 

Interest Group and Communication Technology Division 



Topic I—AI, VR and AR in Communication 

02-1500-01 • Immersive Shopping and Consumer 

Decision-Making: Experiencing Flow via Augmented 

Reality Affordances of Realness and Fluidity 

Ye Chen and Carolyn Lin, Connecticut 

02-1500-02 • How Do Individuals’ World Views Shape 

Their Perceptions of AI 

Yi-Ning Katherine Chen, National Chengchi 

University 

and Chia-Ho Ryan Wen, Syracuse 

02-1500-03 • Bridging the Academic-Practitioner 

Divide in AI Advertising: Analysis of Articles in 

Advertising Trade Publications 

Linwan Wu and Taylor Wen, South Carolina 

02-1500-04 • [EA] Close Enough to Share? The Effect 

of Technology Media-system Dependency on Proximity 

to the Impacts of Artificial Intelligence, and Online 

Information Sharing 

Alex Kirkpatrick 

and Amanda Boyd, Washington State; 

and Jay Hmielowski, Florida 

Discussant 

Kris Boyle, Brigham Young 

Topic II — Social Media and Misinformation 

02-1500-05 • Understanding Fake News Corrective 

Action: A Mixed Method Approach 

Homero Gil de Zúñiga, Salamanca/ 

Pennsylvania State; 

Manuel Goyanes, Carlos III University 

and Christofer Skurka, Pennsylvania State 

02-1500-06 • Twitter and Endorsed Misinformation: 

Retweeting, Bandwagon Cues, and Conspiracy 

Theory during COVID-19 Pandemic 

Luxuan Wang, Rutgers; 

Inyoung Shin, Wisconsin-Milwaukee 

and Yi-Ta Lu, Stony Brook 

02-1500-07 • Integrating Interpersonal Communication 

Into the Influence of Presumed Media Influence Model: 

Understanding Intentions to Censor and Correct 

Misinformation on Social Media 

Jingyuan Shi, Hong Kong Baptist; 

Liang Chen, Nanyang Technological 

and Stephanie Jean Tsang, Hong Kong Baptist 

02-1500-08 • Using Theory of Planned Behavior, and 

Operationalization of Political Partisanship and Belief in 

Misinformation to Predict Individuals’ Intentions to Quit 

Social Media 

Ali Zain, South Carolina 

Discussant 

Mike Horning, Virginia Tech 

Topic III — Digital Experiences During COVID-19 

02-1500-09 • Digital Fandom Engagement through 

Virtual Concert during Covid-19 

Wonkyung Kim, BNU-HKBU United International 

College; 

and Hyun Jung Oh, Cha University 

02-1500-10 • [EA] Sharing Goodness: Communication 

Technology Effects and Effectiveness During a Pandemic 

Brian Smith, Staci Smith, 

Danielle Hallows, Lauren Silva, 

and Kateryna Kravchenko, Brigham Young 

02-1500-11 • [EA] Alexa as Perfect Pandemic Pals: 

Contextualizing Motivations of Anthropomorphizing 

Voice Assistants during Covid-19 Quarantine 

Fanjue Liu and Mo Chen, Florida


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02-1500-12 • A Vaccine for Social Media? Factors 

Moderating the Negative Impact of Social Media Use 

on COVID-19 Protective Behaviors 

Nancy Muturi and Raluca Cozma, Kansas State; 

Alec Tefertiller, Baylor 

and Jacob Groshek, Kansas State 

Discussant 

Hyosun Kim, Indiana State 

Topic IV — Platforms and Engagement 

02-1500-13 • [EA] Exploring Users’ Co-commenting 

Behaviors on Social Video Platforms: A Network 

Analysis of Danmaku Comments 

Xinzhi Zhang and Dion Deng, Hong Kong Baptist 

02-1500-14 • #Scamdemic, #Plandemic, or 

#Scaredemic: What Parleys Tell Us About COVID-19 

Vaccine 

Annalise Baines, Muhammad Ittefaq, 

and Mauryne Abwao, Kansas 

02-1500-15 • Competing in Shopping Games: 

Modelling Gamification Effects of Social Livestreaming 

Shopping and Chinese Undergraduates’ Impulsive 

Buying 

Yulou Jiang, Wanci Li, 

Jing Lu and Yicheng Zhu, Beijing Normal University 

and Anan Wan, Kansas State 

02-1500-16 • [EA] The Cost of Flow in Media Use: An 

Eye-tracking Study 

Giang V. Pham, Illinois Urbana-Champaign 

Discussant 

Amanda Damiano, Marist 

Topic V—Social Media and Well-being 

02-1500-17 • “Live” Together with You: Livestream 

Views Mitigate the Effects of Loneliness on Well-being 

Zhang Hao Goh, Edson Tandoc Jr., 

and Bin Ng, Nanyang Technological University 

02-1500-18 • Mobile Phone Paradox: A Hypothetical 

Two-pathway Model Connecting Mobile Phone Use and 

Loneliness for the Filipino Domestic Workers in Hong 

Kong 

Li Zhong 

and Vincent Huang, Hong Kong Baptist University 

02-1500-19 • Media Multitasking and Mood 

Management: The Positive and Negative Mediation 

Effects of Entertainment and Flow on Mood Repair 

Yuhmiin Chang, National Chengchi University 

02-1500-20 • [EA] The Link between Online Gaming 

Behavior and Unethical Decision-Making in Emerging 

Adults 

Yuehua Wu, 

Jie Hu, 

and Wu Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University 

Discussant 

Devin Knighton, Brigham Young 

Topic VI — Digital Media & Civic Engagement 

02-1500-21 • The Logic of Cross-Breeding Actions: 

Roles of Telegrams Channels in the 2019 

Hong Kong Social Movement 

KW Fu, University of Hong Kong 

02-1500-22 • Parasocial Interactions with Live 

Streamers, Social Capital, and Political Participation 

Heysung Lee, Yibing Sun 

and Hernando Rojas, Wisconsin-Madison 

02-1500-23 • The Influence of Perceived Value of 

Social Media Affordances on SNS Usage Loyalty 

Yu-Huay Hsu 

and Shihhsien Hsu, National Taiwan University 

Discussant 

Benjamin Johnson, Florida 

Topic VII—Online Content Moderation, Privacy & 

Security 

02-1500-24 • Exploratory Study of the Relationship 

between Privacy Concerns and Online Political 

Participation on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram 

Muhammad Fahad Humayun, Colorado-Boulder 

02-1500-25 • What Is Government Content 

Moderation? 

Muira McCammon, Pennsylvania 

02-1500-26 • Norms, Attitudes, and Third-Person 

Effects in VPN Use of Chinese Users Abroad 

Ying Zhu, David Silva, 

and Michael Beam, Kent State 

02-1500-27 • [EA] Consumers’ Responses to Location 

Privacy Invasive Digital Reality Technologies 

in Museums: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective 

Yowei Kang, NTOU 

and Kenneth C.C. Yang, Texas at El Paso 

Discussant 

Anan Wan, Kansas State 

Topic VIII — Digital Media & User Experience 

02-1500-28 • [EA] Visually Provocative: How Visual 

Elements Influence IRA Facebook Advertisement 

Engagements 

Jaewon Royce Choi, Sharon Strover, 

Soyoung Park, 

and Mackenzie Schnell, Texas at Austin 

02-1500-29 • Trade-Off Between Layout Congruency 

and User Experience in Visual Search Behavior 

on Pinterest Boards 

Olga Shabalina, Xiaohan Hu, 

and Kevin Wise, Illinois Urbana-Champaign 

Wednesday

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02-1500-30 • [EA] How Social Shoppers Adopt 

Information: The Moderating Role of Social Homophily 

and Content Provider Motivation 

Pei-Chuan Chang, Fu Jen Catholic University 

and Ying-Chia Hsu, Washington State 

02-1500-31 • Build Your Own Web Experience: 

Investigating the Effectiveness of Web-enabled 

Personalization through an Online Onteractive Tailored 

Video 

Juliann Cortese, Mia Liza A. Lustria, 

and Vaibhav Diwanji, Florida State 

Discussant 

Yafei Zhang, West Texas A&M 

Topic IX — Online Representation 

02-1500-32 • Exploring Effects of Gender and Instant 

Messaging Experience on Organization-Customer 

Live Chat Communication 

Xu Song, Stockton University 

and Cindy T. Christen, Colorado State 

02-1500-33 • “Now You See Me”: Self-Representation 

Affordance Moderates Bandwagon-Cues’ Impacts 

on Information Exposure 

Wenbo Li, Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick, 

and Chris Cosma, Ohio State 

02-1500-34 • Filtering the I from the Ideal: Examining 

Preadolescents’ Self-presentation in Relation 

to Appearance Perceptions 

Anneleen Meeus, KULeuven 

02-1500-35 • More Gay Dating Apps Use, More 

Depressive Symptoms: Exploring How Masculinity 

Consciousness and Internalized Homophobia Influenced 

Gay Men in China 

Dongya Wang, 

and Yang Liu, Beijing Foreign Studies University 

Discussant 

Liefu Jiang, Chicago State 


Topic — Women as Champions, Rebels, and Enemies of 

Shame 

02-1500-36 • A Feminist New Materialism Analysis of 

Digital Pelvic Floor Health Messages* 

Jennifer Vardeman, Houston; Lyric Mandell, 

Natasha Saad, and Alaina Spiers, Louisiana State 

02-1500-37 • Covering the Second Wave: Grace 

Lichtenstein, The New York Times, and the Legacy 

of Liberal Feminism** 

Dana Dabek, Temple 

02-1500-38 • Rebel! Rebel! How Megan Rapinoe’s 

Celebrity Activism Forges New Paths for Athletes 

Tracy Everbach, Gwendelyn Nisbett, 

and Karen Weiller-Ables, North Texas 

02-1500-39 • [EA] Women in Communication: 

Assessing and Advancing Gender Equality 

Solyee Kim and Juan Meng, Georgia 

02-1500-40 • An SEC Soccer Champion and a Winless 

Football Team: Media Framing and the Self-representation 

of Sarah Fuller’s Fall Season as a Vanderbilt Commodore 

Student-Athlete 

Shannon Scovel, Maryland 

Discussant 

Katie Place, Quinnipiac 

* Top Paper 

** Top Student Paper 


abstract 

Graduate Student Interest Group 

Topic I — Pandemic Coping and Expressing Emotions 

02-1500-41 • [EA] Partisan Pride: How Cross-Exposure 

to Partisan News and Emotions Toward Trump 

Leads to Civic Engagement 

Andrea Smith, Adriana Mucedola, 


02-1500-42 • [EA] Examining Institutional and 

Instructional Support of Communication Graduate 

Students Academic and Social Needs During COVID-19 

Victoria McDermott 

and Drew T. Ashby-King, Maryland 

02-1500-43 • Stripped From Society Abruptly: Effects 

of Physical Social Isolation on People’s Emotional 

Expression and Well-being 

Wanjiang Zhang, Jiayu Qu, 

and Jingjing Yi, Chinese University of Hong Kong 

02-1500-44 • [EA] A Critical Qualitative Analysis of 

Response Framing of the COVID-19 Pandemic 

Across Higher Education 

Carl Ciccarelli, South Carolina 

02-1500-45 • The Use of Non-Verbal Cues to Express 

Apology and User Perception on Influencers’ Apology 

Sera Choi, Colorado State 

Discussant 

Tien Tsung Lee, University of Macau 

Topic II - Examining Digital Media Effects 

02-1500-46 • [EA] Strangers Helping Strangers in a 

Strange Land: Vietnamese Immigrant Mothers and 

Expecting Mothers in the USA use Social Media to 

Navigate Health Acculturation 

Nhung Nguyen, Kansas 

02-1500-47 • Trust in Media in the Era of Fake News 

Taylor Thompson, Memphis


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02-1500-48 • Understanding Triggers of Problematic 

Internet Uses in Casual Mobile Game Designs* 

Yanru Jiang, California, Los Angeles 

02-1500-49 • Royal Baby Boom: How British Tabloids 

Covered Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle’s 

Pregnancies 

Adriana Mucedola, Syracuse 

Discussant 

Ioana Coman, Texas Tech 

* Master’s Award 

Topic III — The Use of Language in Communication 

Studies 

02-1500-50 • Research on Online Social Support Related 

to Gender Issues from the Perspective of Communication- 

An Empirical Analysis Based on Zhihu, An Online 

Question-and-Answer Community in China 

Tian Xinhe, Communication University of China 

02-1500-51 • The Influence of Message and Audio 

Modalities in Augmented Reality Mobile Advertisements 

on Consumers’ Purchase Intention 

Jingyue Tao, Texas at Austin 

02-1500-52 • Boosting Texts: Improving Text 

Classification Performance on Small-Sized, Imbalanced 

Datasets 

Lingshu Hu, Missouri 

02-1500-53 • [EA] The Discourse of Health Code in 

China: Datafication of Mobilities, Algorithmic Governan 

ce and Dataism Ideology 

Yihan Li, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 

02-1500-54 • Motivation to Purchase Organic Foods, 

Message Clarity, and Information 

Processing from a Heuristic-Systematic Perspective 

Shudan Huang and Max Bretscher, South Carolina 

Discussant 

Lindsey Sherrill, North Alabama 

02-1500-58 • Young Activists or Misguided Children? 

American Adults’ Perceptions on the March for Our 

Lives Teen Activists 

Laura Canuelas-Torres, Syracuse 

02-1500-59 • Struggling to Fit in: Understanding 

Difficulties Faced by African International Graduate 

Students in a Predominant White Institution (PWI) in the 

United States 

Diane Ezeh Aruah, Florida 

Discussants 


and Erika Schneider, Missouri 

Topic V — Understanding Perspectives and Sources 

02-1500-60 • [EA] Visualizing the Invisible: Visual-Based 

Design and Efficacy in Air Quality Messaging 

Zoey Rosen, Channing Bice, 

and Stephanie Scott, Colorado State 

02-1500-61 • “What a 13-year-old Girl Looks Like”: A 

Feminist Analysis of To Catch a Predator 

Courtney Tabor, Oregon 

02-1500-62 • Credibility from the Source: Comparing 

Traditional Celebrity Endorsers with Youtube Endorsers 

Sarah Johnson, South Carolina 

02-1500-63 • Audience Member Twitter Discussion 

About Netflix’s Unbelievable (2019) 

Nina M. Gayleard, Towson 

02-1500-64 • Assessing the Implications of Cervical 

Cancer Information Sources and its Barriers Among 

Latinas 

Ursula Kamanga, Kansas 

Discussant 

Ginger Blackstone, Harding 


abstract. 

Wednesday 

Topic VI — Political Discourse and Cultural Barriers 

02-1500-55 • The Impact of Internet on Public Trust 

in Government: Assessing the Mediating Effect of 

Subjective Social Justice 

Runlei Ren, Xinyu Dai, Shanghai Jiao Tong University 

and Mengyuan Wei, Guilin University of Electronic 

Technology 

02-1500-56 • Are there Partisan Differences in the 

Moral Framing of News? 

Jeff Hunter and Koji Yoshimura, Texas Tech 

02-1500-57 • Independent Journalists Reporting on 

Political Issues in Turkey, using Traditional and New 

Media 

Hakan Karaaytu, Ohio 

3 to 4:30 p.m. / W055 


Communication Elected Standing Committee on 

Teaching 


Best Practices: Teaching Skills Courses Online 



First Place 

Hold a Monthly Web Strategy Meeting 

Amy B. Simons, Missouri

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Second Place 

Innovations in Teaching Digital Campaigns using a 

Collaborative Teaching Model 

Rebecca Cooney, Cara Hawkins-Jedlicka 

and Chelsea Newman, Washington State 

Third Place 

Don’t Get Me Fooled: Honing Critical Thinking in Data 

Journalism with Zoom 

Yanjun Zhao, Cameron University 

Honorable Mention 

I’m Right Beside You: Accompanying Students Virtually 

on Reporting Assignments 

Terra Tailleur, University of King’s College 

3 to 4:30 p.m. / W056 


Communication Presidential Committee on Career 

Development 


Mentorship for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion 

(DEI) in Career Development 



Panelists 


Jerry Crawford, Kansas 

Geri Zeldes, Michigan State 

Makana Chock, Syracuse 

Rachel Mourão, Michigan State 

This panel focuses on facilitating information and discussion 

around best mentorship practices to support 

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion during the stages of career 

development ranging from graduate school through hiring 

and retention. 

5 to 6:30 p.m. / W057 

Communication Theory and Methodology 

and Magazine Media Divisions 


Advanced and Emerging Research Methods in the 

Publication Process 


Rosie Jahng, Wayne State 

Panelists 

Daniela Dimitrova, Iowa State, editor, Journalism 

and Mass Communication Quarterly 

Kevin M. Lerner, Marist, editor, Journal 

of Magazine Media 

Mike Schmierbach, Pennsylvania State, editor, 


LJ Shen, Pennsylvania State, editor, Communication 

Methods and Measures 

5 to 6:30 p.m. / W058 

Cultural and Critical Studies 

and Political Studies Divisions 


Memes in the Digital Public Sphere 


Suman Mishra, Southern Illinois Edwardsville 

Panelists 

Rebecca Kern-Stone, Manhattan College 

Peter Joseph Gloviczki, Coker 

David P. Perlmutter, Texas Tech 

Sherice Gearhart, Texas Tech 

Internet memes have gained popularity in the digital 

cultural sphere and become powerful ways of communicating 

and criticizing on social media. This panel will 

explore how memes help to define cultural events or 

issues; the social and political power of memes in modern 

society; development, structure, and value of memes 

within different subcultures; and how memes may act as 

a site of empowerment and resistance. 

5 to 6:30 p.m. / W059 


Refereed Research Paper Session 

The Seeking and Shaping of Electronic News 


Dylan McLemore, Central Arkansas 

Production and Improvisation: Digital Native News 

Video as an Emerging Narrative Style 

Mary Bock, Robert Richardson, 

Christopher T. Assaf 

and Dariya Tsyrenzhapova, Texas at Austin


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Exploring Audience Criteria for Perceptions of Online 

News Videos 

Michael Koliska, Georgetown, Neil Thurman, LMU; 

Sally Stares, City University of London 

and Jessica Kunert, University of Hamburg 

Factors that Affect Social Media Credibility as a News 

Channel: The Impact of Network Relationships, Source 

Perceptions and Media Use 

Jiyoung Cha, San Francisco State 

An Agenda-setting Test of Google News World 

Reporting on Foreign Nations 

Anna Young and David Atkin, Connecticut 

Discussant 

William Davie, Louisiana 

5 to 6:30 p.m. / W060 

5 to 6:30 p.m. / W061 




Bridging the Communication Gap from Behind 

the (Digital) Mask 


Newly Paul, North Texas 

Panelists 

Tara Pixley, Loyola Marymount 




Kim Fox, The American University in Cairo 

Wednesday 



Looking Back to Look Forward: Theory, History, 

and Pedagogy 


Kearston Wesner, Quinnipiac 

Beyond Positive & Negative: Developing a 

Complementary Framework for First Amendment Theory 

Patrick Walters, Kutztown 

Thirty Years After Chandler v. Florida: Chauvin Trial 

Shows Flaws in “Cameras in the Courts” 

Michael Martinez, Tennessee 

[EA] Is Defamation Law Outdated? How Justice Powell 

Predicted the Current Criticism 

Kirk von Kreisler, Texas at Austin 

[EA] Too Many Cases, Too Little Time: What Instructors 

Choose to (Not) Teach in Media Law Courses 

Genelle Belmas, Kansas; 

Tori Ekstrand, North Carolina at Chapel Hill; 

Daxton Stewart, Texas Christian; 

and Kyla Garrett Wagner, Syracuse 

Discussant 

Roxanne Watson, South Florida 


abstract. 

5 to 6:30 p.m. / W062 



Morality in Advertising and Publicity 


Yayu Feng, St. Thomas 

Moral Reasoning and the Life Stories that Depict 

Personal Interest, Maintaining Norms and Universal 

Principles 

Erin Schauster, Colorado at Boulder 

Tear Down this Wall: Native Advertising as Boundary 

Object in Scholarship 

Andrew Duffy, Nanyang Technological 

Skepticism, Egoism, & COVID-19 Advertisements: An 

Exploratory Study of Consumer Attitudes and Moral 

Foundations 

Christopher Vardeman, Colorado at Boulder 

Morality Rules: Understanding the Role of Prior 

Reputation in Consequences of Scansis 

Lewen Wei, Pennsylvania State 

and Pratiti Diddi, Lamar 

Discussant 

Kati Tusinski Berg, Marquette

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5 to 6:30 p.m. / W063 



Remote Learning and College Instruction Strategies 


Theresa de los Santos, Pepperdine 

The Long-term Value of Networking and Diverse 

Professional Experience in Online Communication 

Master’s Program Cohorts 

Shanetta Pendleton 

and Rhonda Gibson, North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

Pandemic Grading Strategies: A Natural Experiment 

with Audio Feedback in an Introductory Mass 

Communications Course 

Carolyn Hedges, Syracuse 

The Inconsistency of Journalism Education and Traumarelated 

Instruction 

Joe Hight, Central Oklahoma; Elana Newman, 

Ilissa Madrigal, and Bret Arnold, Tulsa 

Teaching Data Science through Storytelling: Improving 

Undergraduate Data Literacy 

You Li, Eastern Michigan; Ye Wang, 

and Yugyung Lee, Missouri-Kansas City 

Huan Chen, Florida; 

Alexis Nicolle Petri, Missouri-Kansas City 

and Teryn Cha, Essex County College 

Discussant 

Erica Salkin, Whitworth 

5 to 6:30 p.m. / W064 




Whose Visual Ethics? Everyone’s Visual Ethics 


Mary Angela Bock, Texas at Austin 

Panelists 

The Ethics of Witnessing 

Julianne Newton, Oregon 

Defending the Castle: Photojournalistic Ethical 

Codes as Boundary Maintenance in a Time 

of Professional Precarity 

Andrew Mendelson, CUNY 

Disconnection between Image and Reality: Ethical 

Questions for Journalists, Subjects, and Researchers 

Kimberly Lauffer, Keene State College (NH) 

Unpublishing the News Beyond Text: Facing 

Unique Challenges of Visual and Multimedia 

Content 

Deborah L. Dwyer, North Carolina 

at Chapel Hill 

Discussant 

Gina Gayle, Emerson 

Visual media are particularly powerful, emotionally persuasive, 

and potentially damaging when used to lie, distort, 

or stereotype. Digitization has democratized access 

to visual media production and, importantly, a worldwide 

audience. Citizen journalism and participatory journalism 

provides opportunities for new voices and new 

perspectives, with the advantage of granting visibility to 

marginalized communities. But one of the disadvantages 

of a more diverse sphere of media production is the lack 

of agreement about shared ethical principles. 

5 to 6:30 p.m. / W065 




Gwen Nisbett, North Texas 

Part I — Examining Salient Issues in Podcasts and 

Dramas 

Aux News: Examining Listeners’ Perceptions of the 

Journalistic Function of Podcasts 

Kelsey Whipple, Massachusetts-Amherst; 

Ivy Ashe, University of Texas at Austin 

and Lourdes Cueva Chacon, San Diego State 

K-dramas and the American Youth: Conceptualizing the 

Aspiration of a Youthful Utopia 

Rachel Son, Florida 

Masculinity’s Representative Anecdote in the MCU: 

Resistance and Revision in “Avengers: Endgame” 

Erika Engstrom and Ralph Beliveau, Oklahoma 

[EA] From “Hunky Beefcakes” to “Beautiful” 

Homecoming Queens: Perpetrators and Victims in True 

Crime Podcasts 

Chris Etheridge and Fatemeh Shayesteh, Kansas; 

Remington Miller 

and Abigail Carlson, Arkansas at Little Rock 

[EA] Intimacy and Connections: Celebrity Culture in 

Indian and South Korean Television Shows 

Heesoo Jang and Madhavi Reddi, North Carolina at 

Chapel Hill 

Discussant 

Newly Paul, North Texas


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Neelam Sharma, Idaho State-Pocatello 

Part II — Salient Issues in Gaming, and Superhero Shows 

Sharing Emotion while Spectating Video Game Play 

Seung Woo Chae 

and Sung Hyun Lee, Indiana, Bloomington 

Let’s Watch Live Streaming! Exploring Streamer 

Credibility in Influencing Purchase Intention in Video 

Game Streamer Marketing 

Qingru Xu, Eastern Washington; 

Hanyoung Kim, Georgia 

and Andrew Billings, Alabama 

[EA] Online and Offline: How MOBA Games Affect 

Adolescence’s Discourse 

Wenjing Yang, 

and Ruyue Ma, Communication University of China 

[EA] All the Reasons Why: Exploring the Relationship 

between Morally Controversial Content in 13 Reasons 

Why and Viewers’ Moral Rumination 

Serena Daalmans, Mariska Kleemans, 

Cedra van Erp, and Addy Weijers, Radboud 

[EA] Earth’s Moralist Heroes: Virtue Depictions in the 

Marvel Cinematic Universe 

Casey Yetter and Alex Eschbach, Oklahoma 

Discussant 

Greg Adamo, Morgan State 


abstract. 

This high-density refereed paper session will explore 

issues of audience behavior and the content of entertainment 

media in a variety of contexts. The papers presented 

will address issues related to podcast content, South 

Korean and Indian television shows, and the fantasy and 

gaming genres of entertainment. 

Panelists 

Tony DeMars, Texas A&M Commerce 

Melissa Wall, California State, Northridge 

Chris Roush, Quinnipiac 

Connie Ford Mitchell, Maryland 

How do we attract diverse talent to journalism and help 

them learn valuable reporting skills – that help them land 

an internship or job - while guiding them to report on 

topics they care about? This panel looks at unique ways 

to engage these students. Community journalism works 

best when reporters and residents work together to better 

understand local issues and their impact on the people 

who live with them. Panelists will describe their experiences 

incorporating participatory journalism practices 

into their classes, offering helpful hints and guidance for 

others who want to do the same. . Yet too many students 

still prefer to write about sports, fashion or entertainment 

while viewing business reporting as either daunting or 

boring. This panel will explore teaching methods to make 

business reporting interesting and exciting to students 

studying and reporting in other genres. And the business 

reporting skillsets are vital to the sports and entertainment 

beats and are a way to expand diversity and inclusion in 

business and economics reporting – a sector of journalism 

that is influential and pays well but lacks diversity. 

5 to 6:30 p.m. / W067 


and Minorities and Communication Division 


Fighting Two Battles: Athlete Activism in the 

Age of COVID-19 



Wednesday 

5 to 6:30 p.m. / W066 

Internships and Careers 

and Participatory Journalism Interest Groups 


Winners and Losers: Teaching Business 

and Economics Reporting to Student Reporters 

Covering Sports, Entertainment and Any Other 

Beat 


Jennifer Brannock Cox, Salisbury 

Panelists 


Kenon A. Brown, Alabama 


Joshua Dickhaus, Bradley 

In 2016, former NFL player Colin Kaepernick was heavily 

criticized for taking a knee during the playing of the 

national anthem. Those who eventually joined him in 

drawing attention to systemic oppression, police brutality 

and injustice drew ire from the President of the United 

States. President Trump’s sentiments echoed Fox Sports 

anchor Laura Ingraham’s message to LeBron James 

months earlier that he should “shut up and dribble” 

instead of involving himself in politicized issues. In 

the midst of an environment already agitated by a fast-

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spreading pandemic, 2020 saw the silent protests turn 

into heightened athlete activism as outrage at racially 

motivated violence extended beyond the field of play. 

NBA players like Jaylen Brown and Malcolm Brogdon 

took to the streets to participate in protests following the 

deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and Rayshard 

Brooks. The Milwaukee Bucks, the Milwaukee Brewers 

and other major league sports teams postponed or 

cancelled games in response to the shooting of Jacob 

Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Tennis star Naomi Osaka 

announced her decision to forgo play in her semifinal, the 

Western & Southern Open, in response to police brutality. 

Meanwhile, college athletes around the nation marched 

in the streets of their college towns, protesting a need for 

change in race relations in American society. This panel 

will discuss athlete activism in its various forms and levels 

of play, along with the media coverage of such activism. 

5 to 6:30 p.m. / W068 

Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass 

Communication 


Current Issues: What’s Next? Post Pandemic 

Strategies for ASJMC Programs 


Gracie Lawson-Borders, Howard; 

ASJMC President, 2020-21 

Panelists 

David Boardman, dean, Klein College of Media 

and Communication, Temple 

Rockell Brown, interim dean, School 

of Communication, Texas Southern 

Marie Hardin, dean, Donald P. Bellisario College 

of Communications, Pennsylvania State 

Thor Wasbotten, managing director, Markkula 

Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara 

Discussants 

Al Stavitsky, dean, Reynolds School of Journalism, 

Nevada, Reno 

and Raul Reis, dean, School of Communication, 

Emerson 

The pandemic had a profound impact on higher ed. 

Strategic Plans are the roadmap for the future. ASJMC 

administrators share suggestions on strategic plans, adjustments, 

and ideas to guide development of new plans. 

5 to 6:30 p.m. / W069 

Jhistory Internet Group 


As James W. Carey’s Iconic Article Nears a Half 

Century, How Do We View “The Problem 

of Journalism History?” 


David T. Z. Mindich, Temple 

Panelists 

Carolyn Kitch, Temple 

John Nerone, Illinois 

Jinx Broussard, Louisiana State 

As James W. Carey’s iconic article nears a half century, 

how do we view “The Problem of Journalism History”? 

An open-ended discussion will use Carey’s article as a 

departure point to view the “problem” in its 2021 context. 

7 to 8:30 p.m. / W070 



Keynote Session 


Tim P. Vos, Michigan State, 

2020-21 AEJMC President 

Award(s) Recognitions 

Presentation of Scripps Howard Awards: 

Introduction 

Liz Carter, President and CEO, Scripps Howard 

Foundation 

2020 Scripps Howard Journalism & Mass 

Communication Teacher of the Year 

Award Recipient 

Kathleen B. Culver, Wisconsin-Madison 

2020 Scripps Howard Journalism & Mass 

Communication Administrator of the Year 

Award Recipient 

Lucy Dalglish, Maryland 

Jennifer H. McGill’s Retirement Celebration

SCRIPPS COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION 

Congratulations, 

Dr. Michael S. Sweeney 

named 

Professor Emeritus 

of Journalism 

awarded by the E. W. Scripps School 

of Journalism and Ohio University in 

recognition of his legacy of research in 

journalism history and mass media, his 

teaching and student mentorship, and 

his contributions to the History Division 

of the Association for Education in 

Journalism and Mass Communication.

Walter Cronkite School of Journalism 


welcomes 

ASU Appoints Battinto Batts Jr. 

New Dean of Cronkite School 

Dr. Battinto L. Batts Jr., an award-winning journalist and educator 

with deep experience in philanthropy and nonprofit administration, has 

been appointed dean of the Cronkite School. As the school’s top leader, 

he supervises approximately 170 full-time and part-time faculty, more 

than 50 staff professionals, 15 intensive full-immersion professional 

programs and all curricula for Cronkite’s 2,300 students. His priorities 

include expanding Cronkite’s global outreach, developing internal and 

external partnerships, expanding its research profile and ensuring that 

programs meet the needs of people at various stages in their careers. 

Dr. Batts comes to Cronkite from the Scripps Howard Foundation in 

Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was director of journalism strategies. 

Adrienne Fairwell, a proven media 

leader with years of communications 

and public television experience, has 

been named general manager of Arizona 

PBS, an affiliate of the Cronkite School 

and one of the nation’s leading public 

media organizations. Fairwell, a leader in 

equity and diversity initiatives, has rich 

experience in developing content for 

television, digital and radio audiences. 

Vanessa Ruiz has been promoted 

to director for diversity initiatives and 

community engagement. She leads 

Cronkite’s diversity, equity and inclusion 

initiatives, touching upon all areas of the 

school, from curriculum, recruitment and 

retention to mentorship and professional 

development. She also is a Southwest 

Borderlands Initiative professor of 

practice. 

Dawn Gilpin, associate honors 

professor, has been promoted to 

assistant dean for research with a 

mission of working with faculty and 

doctoral candidates to increase 

Cronkite’s research profile. Her 

research explores the interactions 

among organizations, media 

and public policy as well as the 

dynamics of knowledge and power. 

Congratulations 

Cronkite Associate Professor Sharon Bramlett-Solomon, recipient 

of the Dorothy Bowles Public Service Award, recognizing AEJMC members 

who have worked for the past 10 years or longer to bridge the academy 

and the profession.

cronkite.asu.edu 

new leaders 

Susan Smith Richardson, a nationally 

recognized journalist and media leader, 

has been named the inaugural Ida B. Wells 

Professor. She will teach media leadership 

this fall and an advanced reporting class on 

social issues in the spring. As deputy editor 

at The Guardian US, she is responsible 

for diversity, equity and inclusion efforts 

and coverage of race, identity, power and 

inequality. 

Juan Mundel, a researcher with deep 

experience in Latin America and Europe, has 

been named Global Initiatives director and 

associate professor. Mundel has experience 

in business, teaching, marketing and research 

and has developed and led study abroad 

programs and conferences. In addition to 

growing Cronkite’s international footprint, 

working with international fellows and 

attracting funding, he will expand the strategic 

communication programs. 

Nonny de la Peña, dubbed “The Godmother 

of Virtual Reality,” will design and lead a new 

graduate program and center in emerging 

media and narrative based at ASU’s California 

Center in Los Angeles. She is the founder and 

CEO of Emblematic Group, a digital media 

company focused on immersive virtual, mixed 

and augmented reality and is largely credited 

with establishing the immersive journalism 

field. 

Jeffrey Timermans, an accomplished 

business journalist and educator, has been 

named the Reynolds Chair in Business 

Journalism. As director of Cronkite’s Donald 

W. Reynolds National Center for Business 

Journalism, he will develop strategies to 

advance business journalism in the digital age, 

build partnerships across the university and 

industry, and expand training programs for 

business journalists domestically and abroad. 

New Degree: 

BA in Digital 

Media Literacy 

Offered entirely online 

Learn how to combat the 

spread of misinformation 

and disinformation through 

critical thinking, global 

awareness and ethical 

decision-making in the 

digital space. 

For more information: bit.ly/ 

DigitalMediaLiteracy 

Hiring: 

Borderlands 

Initiative Scholar 

of Indigenous 

Americans and 

the News Media 

to lead research, teaching 

and interdisciplinary 

collaborations. Open to 

candidates at assistant, 

associate or full professor 

rank or a postdoctoral 

scholar. 

For more information, please 

contact Dr. Dawn Gilpin, 

assistant dean for research, at 

dgilpin@asu.edu.

Thursday Sessions 

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9 to 10:30 a.m. / T001 

Advertising 

and Communication Theory and Methodology Divisions 



Topic I — Brand Activism and CSR Advertising 

03-0900-01 • [EA] Brand Activism and Political 

Consumerism: Understanding Determinants of 

Consumers’ Buycotting and Boycotting Behaviors in the 

Context of Brand Activism 

Moonhee Cho and Minjeong Kim, Tennessee 

03-0900-02 • [EA] Examining Employee Reception 

of Corporate Social Advocacy Communicated by 

Leadership: Effects on Employee-Organization 

Relationships and Work Engagement 

Teresa Tackett 

and Lucinda Austin, North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

03-0900-03 • Effects of Narrative-based Corporate 

Message and Sponsorship Disclosure in Native CSR 

Advertising 

Jiangxue Han 

and Shanshan Lou, Appalachian State; 

Fuyuan Shen, Pennsylvania State; 

and Heidi Hatfield Edwards, Florida Institute 

of Technology 

03-0900-04 • Pride and Prejudice and Country-of- 

Origin Ecological Images 

Min Xiao and Paul Myers, Wichita 

03-0900-05 • Effectiveness of Corporate Social 

Responsibility Activities in the COVID-19 Pandemic 

Jueman (Mandy) Zhang, New York Institute 

of Technology 

and Yi (Jasmine) Wang, Louisville 

Discussant 

Heather Shoenberger, Pennsylvania State 

Topic II — Information Processing and Advertising 

Effects 

03-0900-06 • Why Do We Click on Clickbait? Read on 

to Find Out Why Persuasion Knowledge Matters 

Emily Buteau, Joonghwa Lee 

and Soojung Kim, North Dakota 

03-0900-07 • Adding or Averaging? How Weak 

Arguments Influence the Persuasive Effects of Strong 

Arguments 

Magdalena Obermaier 

and Thomas Koch, LMU Munich 

03-0900-08 • The Role of Product Fit and Brand Fit on 

Brand Co-appearances in Television Programs 

Fanny Fong Yee Chan, The Hang Seng University 

of Hong Kong 

03-0900-09 • Understanding Ad-block Wall and Its 

Effects on Online Publisher and Advertising 

through Psychological Reactance 

Un Chae Chung, Chang-Dae Ham, Seo Yoon Lee, 

WooJin Kim, and Sang-Hwa Oh, Illinois 

03-0900-10 • [EA] Chinese Consumer Resistance and 

Coping Strategies to Live Stream Shopping 

Xiaofeng Jia and Regina Ahn, Miami 

Discussant 

Yoon Joo Lee, Washington State 

Topic III — Research on Advertising Industry 

03-0900-11 • Rhetorical Devices in Agency 

Philosophies: An Analysis of Rhetorical Figures in 

Slogans of Top Ranking Agencies for Creativity and 

Effectiveness 

Heidi Makady and Kasey Windels, Florida 

03-0900-12 • Pressing Issues of Ethnic Diversity in the 

Ad Industry: The Professionals’ Perspectives 

Fang Yang and Robin Spring, Grand Valley State 

03-0900-13 • Advertising’s Youthful Obsession: How a 

Valorization of Youthfulness Has Defined 

the Advertising Industry and Impacted Its Workforce 

Kasey Windels, Eliana DuBosar, 

and Sophia Mueller, Florida 

03-0900-14 • [EA] What Ad Age’s A-List Agencies 

Learned from COVID-19: A Phenomenological 

Approach 

Frauke Hachtmann, Nebraska-Lincoln 

Discussant 

Harold Vincent, Elon 

Topic IV — Research on Social Media Platforms 

03-0900-15 • [EA] Native Ads in the Neighborhood: 

Sponsored Posts Versus User-Generated 

Content on Nextdoor 

Benjamin Johnson and Susanna Lee, Florida 

03-0900-16 • Native Twitter Ads: Testing the Role 

of Media Format and Disclosure 

Louvins Pierre, Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch, 

and Yukyung Lee, Connecticut 

03-0900-17 • [EA] Pinterest Discussions to Support 

Student Learning in Online Advertising and Media 

Courses 

Heidi Huntington, West Texas A&M 

03-0900-18 • Outdoor-sports Brand Communities on 

Instagram: How Message Attributes Relate 

to Consumer Engagement 

Jennifer Shiyue Zhang, and Leona Yi-Fan Su, Illinois 

03-0900-19 • [EA] Helping A Friend in Need: A Study 

of Facebook Fundraisers 

Fei Xue, Southern Mississippi 

and Lijie Zhou, Southern Utah 

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Discussant 

Quan Xie, Southern Methodist 

Topic V — Gender and Multicultural Issues in 

Advertising 

03-0900-20 • A Woman’s View from a Man’s World: 

The Reality of Being Female in Advertising 

Sophia Mueller, Eliana DuBosar, 

and Kasey Windels, Florida 

03-0900-21 • Contoured and In Control: African- 

American Women, Beauty Brand Representation, 

and Consumer Satisfaction 

Raegan Burden, Benjamin Johnson, 

Sophie Jean-Michel, 

Challet Jeong, Hà Nguyễn, 

and Bijun Wu, Florida 

03-0900-22 • Realistic Skin vs. Flawless Skin: An 

Investigation of the Appeal of Retouch-free Advertising 

Tingting Yang, Chen Lou, 


03-0900-23 • When Deception Backfires: Attitudinal 

and Chilling Effects of Targeted Advertising on Social 

Media 

Marlis Stubenvoll and Alice Binder, Vienna 

Discussant 

Masudul Biswas, Loyola 


abstract. 


Topic I — Politicization of Health and Science 

03-0900-24 • Confusion About the Coronavirus: The 

Effects of Uncertainty on Information Seeking Behaviors 

Heejae Lee and Se Jung Kim, Syracuse; 

Seo Yoon Lee, Illinois; Shengjie Yao, 

Natnaree Wongmith, 

and T. Makana Chock, Syracuse 

03-0900-25 • Message Framing and COVID-19 

Vaccination Intention: Moderating Roles of Partisan 

Media 

Use and Pre-Attitudes About Vaccination 

Porismita Borah, Washington State 

03-0900-26 • Feeling Is NOT Mutual: Political 

Discussion, Science, and Environmental Attitudes by 

Party Affiliation 

Jay Hmielowski, Moritz Cleve, Eliana DuBosar, 

and Michael Munroe, Florida 

03-0900-27 • [EA] Influence of Presumed Influence: 

Past, Present, and Future 

Yin Yang, Pennsylvania State 

Discussant 

Lee Ann Kahlor, Texas at Austin 

Topic II — Intensity of Partisan Media 

03-0900-28 • What Drives You? Conceptualizing 

Motivations for Partisan Media Selectivity 

Eliana DuBosar, Florida 

03-0900-29 • I, We, You, or They? Language Styles in 

Political Discussion on Twitter 

Lingshu Hu, Missouri 

03-0900-30 • Negative Emotion and Partisanship: The 

Mediating Role of Emotion on Media Trust 

Myiah Hutchens, Ekaterina Romanova, 

and Amanda Pennings, Florida 

03-0900-31 • [EA] Expectancy Violations in Media 

Theory 

Robin Blom, Ball State 

Discussant 

Melissa Gotlieb, Texas Tech 

Topic III — Living Online 

03-0900-32 • Why More Is Less on Dating Apps: The 

Effects of Excessive Partner Availability 

Marina F. Thomas, Alice Binder, 

and Joerg Matthes, University of Vienna 

03-0900-33 • Self-Influence of Online Posting 

Wufan Jia, City University of Hong Kong 

03-0900-34 • Emotion in Virtual Research Spaces: 

Proposing Micro-Communicative Practices 

to Facilitate Online Qualitative Interviews 

Jeannette Iannacone 

and Lindsey Anderson, Maryland 

Discussant 

Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch, Connecticut 

Topic IV — Communicating Communication 

03-0900-35 • Diffusion of Diffusion: Research 

on the Interdisciplinary Knowledge Diffusion of 

Communication Theory 

Shaoqing Han, Naipeng Chao, Wensen Huang, 

and Bin Yang, Shenzhen University 

03-0900-36 • [EA] Communicating AI: Segmenting 

Audiences on Risk and Benefit Perceptions 

Luye Bao, Mikhaila Calice, Nicole Krause, 

Christopher Wirz, Dietram A. Scheufele, 

Dominique Brossard, Todd Newman 

and Michael Xenos, Wisconsin-Madison 

03-0900-37 • [EA] The Strength and Pitfalls of Topic 

Modeling in Communication Studies: A Systematic 

Review 

Yingying Chen, South Carolina 

and Zhao Peng, Michigan State 

Discussant 

Myiah Hutchens, Florida


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Topic V — Journalism as a Public Good 

03-0900-38 • Cultivating Cognitive Legitimacy: The 

Case of Solutions Journalism 

Allison Steinke, Minnesota 

03-0900-39 • Reshaping the Spheres: An Essay on the 

New Normative Role of Gatekeeping 

Patrick Ferrucci 

and Toby Hopp, Colorado-Boulder 

03-0900-40 • [EA] A Systematic Method of Cataloging 

Civic Information Infrastructure 

Ava Francesca Battocchio, Michigan State; 

Christopher Etheridge, Kansas; 

Kjerstin Thorson, Moldir Moldagaliyeva, 

Dan Hiaeshutter-Rice, 

and Chuqing Dong, Michigan State; 

Kelley Cotter, Arizona State; 

Yingying Chen, Michigan State 

and Stephanie Edgerly, Northwestern 

Discussant 

Wayne Wanta, Florida 

Topic VI — Theorizing the Newsroom 

03-0900-41 • CCO Model Can Explain How a 

Nonprofit News Organization Can Remain Independent 

of Outside Influence 

Elizabeth Potter, Colorado-Boulder 

03-0900-42 • A Participant Observation Method Guide 

for Ethnographers Based on an Examination 

of Journalism Newsroom Scholarship 

Soo Young Shin and Serena Miller, Michigan State 

03-0900-43 • Legal Narratives: Establishing Frames for 

Media Coverage of Appellate Courts 

Kenneth Pybus, Abilene Christian 

Discussant 

Lindsey Sherrill, North Alabama 


abstract. 

9 to 10:30 a.m. / T002 


and Entertainment Studies Interest Group 


It’s All Fun and Games: The Blending of News, 

Advertising, and Entertainment in the 

New Media Environment 


Lindsey Maxwell, Southern Mississippi 

Panelists 

Miles Kahn, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee 

David Morris, South Carolina-Aiken 



9 to 10:30 a.m. / T003 

History and Magazine Media Divisions 


The Future of Historical Research: Re-envisioning 

the Archive in the Age of Digitization 


Julien Gorbach, Hawaii-Manoa 

Panelists 

Joseph Makkos, CEO, NOLA DNA, New Orleans, 

Louisiana 

Jennifer Moore, Minnesota-Duluth 

Joe Saltzman, Southern California 

Kevin Lerner, Marist 


Katherine Day Good, Miami University 

9 to 10:30 a.m. / T004 


and Small Programs Interest Group 


Teaching Resilience During Crisis 



Panelists 

Margaret Jjuuko, University of Rwanda 

Shearon Roberts, Xavier University of Louisiana 

Brian Semujju, Makerere University 

Tamara J. Welter, Biola University 

Panelists will discuss resilience from a variety of perspectives, 

including how to develop resilience as an educator 

and how to pass it along to students. The panelists have 

experience in a variety of crisis situations, ranging from 

natural disasters (Hurricane Katrina in the U.S.) to health 

crises like COVID-19 (around the world) to ideological 

crises, including the clash between Western journalism 

norms and journalistic realities in other countries and 

the challenges of training minority journalists, especially 

Black and Indigenous students in the U.S. This is 

a meaningful topic for the International Communication 

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Division, whose members regularly must adapt to unexpected 

situations in teaching journalism around the 

world. It also has values beyond the division to all AEJMC 

members as we grapple with the realities of teaching in 

the extended crisis of COVID-19. 

9 to 10:30 a.m. / T005 



Untangling New Questions in Access 

and Use of Likenesses 


Brett Johnson, Missouri 

Rise of the Copyleft Trolls: When Photographers Sue 

After Creative Commons Licenses Go Awry 

Daxton Stewart, Texas Christian 

Copyright Versus the Right to Copy: The Civic Danger 

of Allowing Copyright to Override State Freedom-of- 

Information Law 

Frank LoMonte, Florida 

[EA] Feeling the Bern: Commercial Speech Protections 

for Memes 

Courtney Barclay, Jacksonville 

and Kearston Wesner, Quinnipiac 

Discussant 

Kathy Olson, Lehigh 


abstract. 

9 to 10:30 a.m. / T006 



Politics and Mass Communication Theories 

in Contemporary Context 


Kate Stewart, South Carolina 

The Growing Influence of Political Ideology in Shaping 

Health Behavior in the United States 

Mugur Geana, Kansas; 

Nathaniel Rabb, and Steven Sloman, Brown 

News Literacy, Conspiratorial Thinking, and Political 

Orientation in the 2020 U.S. Election 

Seth Ashley, Boise State; 

Stephanie Craft, Illinois at Urbana Champaign; 

Adam Maksl, Indiana-Southeast; 

Melissa Tully, Iowa and Emily Vraga, Minnesota 

Politically Contested Beliefs: Why Do Conservatives Tend 

to Have More Inaccurate Beliefs About COVID-19? 

GyoHyun Koo, Tom Johnson, Taeyoung Lee, 

and Chenyan Jia, Texas at Austin 

Theme II — Priming, Framing, and Agenda-setting in 

New Context 

Influencing the Agenda: The Role of Conservative 

Figures in Melding Media Agendas for Social Media 

Communities 


and Marcus Funk, Sam Houston State 

Media Mistrust and the Meta-Frame: Collective Framing 

of Police Brutality Evidence Reporting on YouTube 

Richard Canevez, Moshe Karabelnik, 

and Jenifer Sunrise Winter, Hawaii at Manoa 

When Does the Past Colonial Memory Plug into 

Nationalism? Information and Media’s Priming of Anti- 

Japan Nationalism in South Korea and China 

Jisoo Kim, Gaofei Li, Xining Liao, 


Linguistic Attribution Framing: A Linguistic Category 

Approach to Framing Crisis 

Xiaochen Zhang, Oklahoma 

and Jonathan Borden, Kansas State 

The New Yellow Peril: Priming News Context on 

Attitudes Towards Asian Models, and Brands 

Lincoln Lu and Franklin Waddell, Florida 

The Labeling Experiment: Examining the Differential 

Effects of Equivalent Labels on Individuals’ Associations 

toward Immigrants 

Juliana Fernandes and Moritz Cleve, Florida 

Discussants 

Yingying Chen, South Carolina; 

Catherine Luther, Tennessee, Knoxville 

and Yicheng Zhu, Beijing Normal University 

Theme I — Political Information Consumption 

Political News Personalization and the Third-person 

Effect: Examining Support for Restrictions on Audience 

Data Collection 

Lisa Farman, Ithaca


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9 to 10:30 a.m. / T007 

9 to 10:30 a.m. / T009 

Media Management, Economics, and Entrepreneurship 

Division 


New Audience Measurement 


Michael Elasmar, Boston University 

Predicting Twitter Engagement with the Oscar-Winning 

Parasite: Throughthe Theoretical Lens of Country-of- 

Origin* 

Dam Hee Kim, Arizona; 

Kyung Jung Han, California State, Bakersfield 

and Sungchul Lee, Grand Valley State 

Does Social Capital Matter to the Millennials? Social 

Capital and User Engagements in Online Video 

Platforms** 

Jaewon Royce Choi 

and Sooyeon Hong, Texas at Austin; 

and Junghwan Kim, Pukyong National University 

Video Measurement and Analytics: Best Practices 

and Industry Challenges*** 

Amy Jo Coffey, Florida 

and Ann Hollifeld, Georgia 

Configuring the Usage of Audience Analytics on 

Journalism Practices Inside Egyptian Newsrooms 

Rasha Allam, The American University in Cairo 

Discussant 

Phil Napoli, Duke 

* First Place Faculty Paper 

** Second Place Faculty Paper 

*** Third Place Faculty Paper 



News Literacy Interventions 


Sarah Cavanah, Southeast Missouri State 

An Exploration of and Intervention to Increase 

Children’s Critical Analysis of News 

Sanne Tamboer, Anne Vlaanderen, 

Kirsten Bevelander, 

and Mariska Kleemans, Behavioural Science 

Institute, Radboud University 

“We’re Playing a Telephone Game”: Understanding 

How Teenagers Engage with News Through a 

Simulation 

Theresa de los Santos, Elizabeth Smith, 

and Jillian Johnson, Pepperdine 

How to Increase News Literacy via Interventions: 

Insights from Early Adolescents 

Sanne Tamboer, Mariska Kleemans, 

Serena Daalmans, Inge Molenaar, 

and Tibor Bosse, Radboud University 

A Systematic Review of Media Literacy Interventions 

and the Case for Teaching a Logic-Based Debunking 

Approach 

Alexander Sussman, Independent Scholar, 

Sliver Spring, Maryland 

and Elia Powers, Towson 

Discussant 

Susan LoRusso, Minnesota 

9 to 10:30 a.m. / T010 

Thursday 

9 to 10:30 a.m. / T008 

Political Communication 

and Communication Technology Divisions 


Mixed Methods Public Scholarship 

in Political Communication 


TBA 

Panelists 

Josephine Lukito, Texas at Austin 

Mike Wagner, Wisconsin-Madison 

Yini Zhang, State University of New York at Buffalo 

Shannon McGregor, North Carolina at Chapel Hill 



Fulbright Scholars Studying Visual Communication 



Panelists 

James D. Kelly, Indiana 

Shahira Fahmy, American in Cairo 

Janis Teruggi Page, Illinois at Chicago 

Robin Hoecker, DePaul 

A panel of Fubrighters will discuss their research and 

creative projects and their teaching experiences while 

living overseas. Panelists will cover topics such as teach-

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ing visual literacy to Erasmus (EU’s exchange program) 

students, visual communication in the public interest to 

support marginalized ethnic communities and combat 

xenophobia, and photojournalism in a mobile phone 

media environment. Panelists will also provide insight 

into the Fulbright application process including project 

design conceptualization and articulation, methods to 

secure support from colleagues working at foreign universities 

and practical matters regarding living conditions, 

access to research materials and teaching environments. 

9 to 10:30 a.m. / T011 



International Examinations of Women 

in Television, Advertising, Vlogging and News 


Charlie Kerns, Tennessee 

“What a Nasty Girl!” Incivility and Gendered Symbolic 

Violence in News Discussions*(**) 

Valentina Proust 

and Magdalena Saldaña, Pontifica Universidad 

Católica de Chile 

An Intersectional Examination of Representations 

of Muslim Women in Television Series 

Sharmeen Jariulla, Texas Woman’s 

Femvertising and Postfeminist Discourse: Advertising t 

o Break Menstrual Taboos in China 

Jingyi Guo, Ziwei Zhang, Jinhong Song, Lu Jin, 

and Duan Yu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong 

Incarcerating Successful Women? Affective Economies 

in Popular Chinese Television Series 

Jun Xu, Shanghai Jiaotong University 

Vlogging Pregnancy and Laboring During the Pandemic: 

Narratives of Chinese Pregnant Women in Diasporas 

Zehui Dai and Michael Meindl, Radford; 

and Dinah Tetteh, Arkansas State 

Discussants 

Linda Aldoory, Maryland 

and Meg Heckman, Northeastern 

*(**) Top Faculty Paper, Commission on the Status of 

Women and Second Place Winner, Latin American 

Communication Research and Researchers Award, 


Focusing on international depictions and discussions of 

women, this session explores the intersection of gender 

and television, advertising, vlogging, and news to better 

understand gender narratives on an international level. 

9 to 10:30 a.m. / T012 

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Interest 

Group 



Andrew E. Stoner, California State, Sacramento 

A Computational and Longitudinal Text Mining Study of 

Gay Marriage Legalization in Taiwan 

Yowei Kang, National Taiwan Ocean 

and Kenneth C.C. Yang, Texas at El Paso 

Framing Analysis of the Indian Media’s Coverage of 

Section 377, Decriminalization of Same Sex Relationships 


The Social Identities of Pete Buttigieg: How Twitter 

Addressed Counter-stereotypical Attributes of a 

Presidential Candidate 

Rhonda Gibson, 

and Joe Bob Hester, North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

Discussant 

Chelsea Reynolds, California State, Fullerton 

This panel shares peer-reviewed scholarship submitted to 

the LGBTQ Interest Group’s open call for papers. 

9 to 10:30 a.m. / T013 


Communication 

Past President’s Panel Session 

What is the Role of Journalism Programs 

at a Research University? 


David D. Perlmutter, Texas Tech, 

AEJMC Past President, 2020-21 

Panelists 

Prabu David, Michigan State 


Gracie Lawson-Borders, Howard, ASJMC 

This panel is part of a discussion of series of roundtables 

on the future of journalism education organized around 

the globe in cooperation with the World Journalism 

Education Congress and UNESCO.


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9 to 10:30 a.m. / T014 

11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. / T016 

Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass 

Communication, Arizona State University 


Grappling with Culture in Journalism 

and Mass Communication Education 


Dawn R. Gilpin, Arizona State 

Panelists 

Sue Robinson, Wisconsin – Madison 

Kathleen McElroy, Texas at Austin 

Vanessa Ruiz, Arizona State 

9 to 10:30 a.m. / T015 

Rowman & Littlefield 


Teaching Race — A Strategy Session 


Natalie Mandziuk, Rowman & Littlefield 

Opening Remarks 


and Robin Blom, Ball State 

Panelists 

International Advertising 

Aqsa Bashir, Florida 

Race in the First-Year Experience Course 

Angie Chuang, Colorado-Boulder 

Community-Centered Journalism Pedagogy 

Alfred J. Cotton, Cincinnati 

Critical Race Methods in Media Courses 

Ilia Rodriguez, New Mexico 

The Higher Education on the N-Word 

Robbie Morganfield, North Carolina A&T 

This workshop showcases some of the teaching strategies 

included in the new book Teaching Race: Struggles, 

Strategies and Scholarship for the Mass Communication 

Classroom. The book is the fourth title in the Master Class 

series. 



Research 

Research Panel Cornerstone Session 

Out of Time: Pandemic Conditions and Silenced 

Voices across Research Arenas 



Panelists 

Building Bridges Connecting Research and DEI 

with Maynard’s Fault Lines Theory 


When Pedagogy Meets Pandemic: COVID’s 

Consequences for Nontraditional Researching 

Academics 

Mitchell Friedman, San Francisco 

Visibility and Vulnerability in the Age 

of COVID-19: Perspectives from the BIPOC Center 

Meta Carstarphen, Oklahoma 

Supporting BIPOC Female Faculty through 

COVID-19 and Racial Injustice Pandemics 


Mitigating Invisible and Emotional Labor 

Amber Roessner, Tennessee-Knoxville 

When Tenure Takes Ten Years: How Support 

Systems Are Essential for Success 

Cheryl Ann Lambert, Kent State 

Discussant 


Pan/epidemic conditions have impacted researchers in 

the 1820s, 1920s, 2020s and women and BIPOC voices 

still are not equitably incorporated across curricula and 

scholarship. What’s next for nurturing strong researchers 

and their research? 

11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. / T017 



Experiential Online Learning: Creatively 

and Interactively Working with Curriculum 

and Technology 

Thursday 


Robyn Blakeman, Tennessee, Knoxville

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Panelists 

Jason Brown, Office of Information Technology 

(OIT) Digital Media Services and Video 

Production Specialist, Tennessee 

Courtney Childers, Tennessee, Knoxville 

Chad Mezera, Assistant Dean of Online Programs, 

West Virginia 

Heidi Hennick-Kaminski, North Carolina 


Panelists will discuss how to: 1) bring more experiential 

leaning to the online environment using varying types 

of technology and content that can bring individualized 

learning a more energized and vivacious feel, 2) address 

the self-driven learning style required to participate in an 

online course, 3) how to leverage engagement in the content 

in the same way we do with target audiences, and 

4) options for reaching different types of learning styles. 

11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. / T018 


Division 


Motivations Behind Health Behaviors 


Nicole Krause, Wisconsin 

Examining Antecedents to Accuracy- and Defense- 

Motivated Information Insufficiency in the COVID-19 

Pandemic* 

Timothy Fung and Po Yan Lai, Hong Kong Baptist 

and Robert Griffin, Marquette 

and Sharon Dunwoody, Wisconsin 

Danger Control and Fear Control during Public Health 

Emergencies: Considering the Role of Fear and Hope in 

the EPPM across Different Levels of Trust 

Liang Chen, Tsinghua 

and Minyi Chen, Nanyang Technological 

How Sympathy and Fear Mediate the Interplay between 

Benefit and Scarcity Appeal Organ Donation Messages 

Sining Kong, Texas A&M at Corpus Christi 

[EA] White Young Adults’ Motives for COVID-19 

Information Avoidance 

Mary Beth Deline and Emily Mason, Illinois State 

and Kajsa Dalrymple, Iowa 

[EA] Vaping Flavors and Flavor Representation: A Test of 

Youth Risk Perceptions and Novelty Perceptions 

Sherri Jean Katz, Ashley Petersen, Hanjie Liu, 

Elisia Cohen and Dorothy Hatsukami, Minnesota 

Discussant 

Janet Yang, Buffalo 

* Top Faculty Paper (Tied) 


abstract. 

11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. / T019 

Communication Technology and Communication 

Theory and Methodology Divisions 


The Promise and Limits of Media Literacy 



Panelists 

Renee Hobbs, Rhode Island 

Michelle Ciulla Lipkin, Executive Director, 

National Media Literacy Association (NAMLE) 

Kimberly Moffitt, Interim Dean, College of 

Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor 

of Language, Literacy, and Cultural Doctoral 

Program, and Affiliate Professor of Africana 

Studies, Maryland – Baltimore County; National 

Media Literacy Association (NAMLE) 

Monica Bulger, Senior Fellow, Joan Ganz Cooney 

Center at Sesame Workshop 

11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. / T020 

Cultural and Critical Studies and History Divisions 


Dismantling a Legacy of Misrepresentation: 

Critiquing the Past in Order to Improve 

the Present Coverage of American Indian Issues 

and Identity 


Melissa Greene-Blye, Kansas


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Panelists 

Pauly Denetclaw, Board Member, NAJA 

John Coward, Tulsa (emeritus) 

Cristina Azocar, San Francisco State 

Victoria LaPoe, Ohio 

Benjamin LaPoe, Ohio 

Issues surrounding American Indian identity and recognition 

are complex, and, too often, journalists fail to 

offer authentic representations of Native individuals and 

issues in the news; however, this problem is not new. 

The purpose of this panel is to highlight the ways news 

media past and present have contributed to a legacy 

of misrepresentation of Native peoples with the goal of 

highlighting ways to improve that coverage in the future. 

The discussion will examine the historical roots of problematic 

coverage of Indian issues and individuals while 

also examining the ways those historical misrepresentations 

continue to manifest in contemporary coverage of 

Indian Country. It will also serve to counter the prevailing 

press tendency to treat the historical experiences of the 

numerous tribal nations monolithically, which serves to 

diminish the unique experiences and identities of those 

nations. Perhaps most importantly, this panel will offer 

insights into what we, as journalism, history, and communication 

scholars can do to counter a legacy that, for 

too long, has limited the ability of Native individuals to 

tell their own stories and exercise self-determination in 

the way they are represented in the press as well as in 

the historical record. This panel will make the case for the 

necessity of placing Native people in the center of their 

own narrative and giving them voice in the ways they are 

represented in news media. It will also discuss the need 

to adjust and improve the ways we train journalists, with 

an eye toward telling more inclusive, more authentic 

stories in the future. 

11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. / T022 


and Internships and Careers Interest Group 


I Need A Job: Getting Your First Job After 

Graduate School 


Kevin D. Williams, Mississippi State 

Panelists 

Kevin D. Williams, Mississippi State 

Jennifer Greer, Kentucky 

Jisu Huh, Minnesota 

John Chapin, Pennsylvania State Beaver 

Cessna Winslow, Tarleton State 

This panel will address the concerns and anxieties that 

every graduate student ultimately encounters: how do 

I land that first job? Topics discussed will include, but 

aren’t limited to: responding to the job announcement, 

making an appropriate application package, interviewing 

pitfalls, negotiation after the job offer, and understanding 

tenure/promotion processes from day one. 

11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. / T023 



Negativity, Incivility, and Anonymity in the News 

and the Comments/Frames and the Language of 

News 

Thursday 

11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. / T021 

Law and Policy and Media Ethics Divisions 


Data Scraping: Legitimate News Gathering 

or Privacy Nightmare? 


Sarah K. Wiley, Minnesota 

Panelists 

Kearston L. Wesner, Quinnipiac 

Casey Fiesler, Colorado at Boulder 

Victoria Baranetsky, General Counsel, 

The Center for Investigative Reporting 

Jeremy B. Merrill, Investigative Data Journalist 

Jane E. Kirtley, Minnesota 


Jonathan Anderson, Minnesota 

Topic I — Journalists and their Audiences 

An Evolutionary Approach to Why People Seek and 

Avoid More Information About Negative News Stories 

Esther Thorson, Carin Tunney 

and Kevin Kryston, Michigan State 

The Role of Anonymity and Race in Online News Story 

Comment Sections 

William Singleton, Alabama 

Seeing Red: Reading Uncivil News Comments Guided 

by Personality Characteristics 

Arthur Santana, San Diego State 

and Toby Hopp, Colorado-Boulder

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Reciprocal Journalism’s Double-Edged Sword: How 

Journalists Resolve Cognitive Dissonance After 

Experiencing Harassment from Audiences on Social 

Media 

Danielle Deavours, Montevallo; 

Will Heath, Alabama-Birmingham; 

Kaitlin Miller and Misha Viehouser, Alabama; 

Sandra Palacios Plugge 

and Ryan Broussard, Sam Houston State 

Redemption vs. #MeToo: How Journalists Addressed 

Kobe Bryant’s Rape Case in Crafting His Memory 


Discussant 

Magda Konieczna, Concordia 

Topic II — The Framing of the News 

Elite Journalists’ Narrative Evolution in the 2018 

Midterm Elections on Twitter and in Print 

Mitchell Bard, Iona 

and Michael Mirer, Wisconsin-Milwaukee 

Media and Good Governance: Examining Role of 

Valenced Framing in Perceptions of Good Governance 

Juan Liu, Columbus State 

“Timely, Accurately, Avoid Unnecessary Panic”: 

How Vietnamese Newspapers Framed the COVID-19 

Pandemic during the Initial Stage 

Huu Dat Tran 

and Pham Phuong Uyen Diep, Kansas State 

The Public’s Frame: News Outlets, YouTube Comments 

and the 2018 Teacher Strike in West Virginia 

Laura Harbert, Ohio 

It’s All Rhetoric: Dominant Climate Change Discourses 

in a UK and US Newspaper 

Kathleen I. Alaimo, Colorado-Boulder 

Discussant 

Bill Cassidy, Northern Illinois 

11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. / T024 


and Minorities and Communication Divisions 


Powerful Perspective: Black Women 

Photojournalists/Photographers 


Laura K. Smith, South Carolina 

Panelists 

Gina Gayle, Emerson 

Alyssa Pointe, Atlanta Journal-Constitution 

Akili Ramses, executive director, NPPA 

Deborah Willis, New York 

Marquita Smith, Mississippi 

11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. / T025 



For vs. About: Challenging Journalists’ Perceptions 

of Audiences and Communities 



Panelists 

Candis Callison, British Columbia 

Anita Varma, Texas at Austin 


Miya Williams Fayne, California State-Fullerton 

As journalists seek to build trust with historically marginalized 

communities, a common stumbling block is the 

refrain from residents that previous coverage has been 

about their communities (and predominantly negative), 

but not with or for their communities. This panel will 

highlight a range of perspectives on how journalists’ view 

their perceived audiences and communities and how 

these perceptions shape their efforts to build relationships 

with them. It will highlight recent research on perceptions 

of audiences, and explore models for redefining relationships 

such as community-centered journalism, solidarity 

journalism, and systems journalism. 

11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. / T026 

Religion and Media Interest Group, 

and Political Communication Division 


Beyond Tolerance: Getting Real with Meaningful 

Classroom Conversations about Faith and Media 


Michael Longinow, Biola 

Panelists 

Mimi Perrault, Eastern Tennessee State 

Rebecca Frazer, Rebecca Frazer 

Paul Glader, King’s College


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Colleges and universities often formally promote religious 

tolerance in diversity statements and human resources 

handbooks. Yet while religious tolerance is an important 

foundation for interactions among diverse students and 

staff, should tolerance be the end of our diversity goals? 

This panel explores how instructors can build classroom 

environments that promote a deeper understanding of 

diverse faith perspectives in media and beyond. Panelists 

will share expertise on practical ways to encourage students 

to not only tolerate religious diversity, but to also 

actively pursue understanding of faith perspectives that 

may be different than their own. 

Jennifer H. McGill is the 2021 Jerry Sass Award winner. 

Ms. McGill, executive director for 37 years of AEJMC 

will speak about her commitment to journalism and mass 

communication education. The ASJMC Business Meeting 

will follow the presentation. 

1 to 2:30 p.m. / T029 

Communication Theory and Methodology and 


Divisions 

11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. / T027 

Scripps Howard Foundation 

Teaching Award Panel Session 

Ignite Your Teaching and Launch Your Career 


2020 Scripps Howard Foundation Teacher of the Year 

Recipient: Kathleen B. Culver, Wisconsin-Madison 

Panelists 


Lanier Holt, Ohio State 

Framed specifically for graduate students and early-career 

scholars, this session features this year’s finalists for the 

Scripps Howard Foundation Teacher of the Year. Profs. 

Culver and Holt will cover the strategies they used to 

guide their teaching careers. They’ll offer ideas for finding 

mentorship, developing effective approaches and focusing 

on a healthy balance of inspiration, aspiration and 

efficiency. And they’ll share candidly what they learned 

from their mistakes over the years. The session will allow 

plenty of time for asking questions and sharing ideas. 


Inclusive Pedagogy for Online Teaching 




Panelists 

Ingrid Bachmann, Pontificia Universidad 


Danielle K. Brown, Minnesota-Twin Cities 

Rachel Mourao, Michigan State 

Lea Hellmueller, Houston 

Nathian Shae Rodriguez, San Diego State 

Online teaching has become front and center during 

the COVID-19 pandemic. This panel reflects on online 

teaching best practices with a particular focus on diversity, 

equity, and inclusion. Panelists will present exemplars 

and models for online teaching content and delivery, 

evaluations, student participation and engagement, and 

comparisons of asynchronous vs. synchronous learning, 

while acknowledging student differences in abilities, 

social identities, cultural perspectives, and neuro- diversity. 

Thursday 

11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. / T028 


Communication 

Award Panel/Business Session 

Sass Award/Executive Committee Meeting 




Panelists 

Alan Stavitsky, President-elect, Nevada, Reno 

Raul Reis, Vice President, Emerson 

1 to 2:30 p.m. / T030 



Reassessing Journalism Ethics in Tumultuous Times 


Jonathan Anderson, Minnesota 

Confucian Virtue System: Bring Media Ethics (Back) to a 

Humanistic Path* 

Yayu Feng, St. Thomas

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Journalists with Different Mindsets Agree on Truth as the 

Profession’s First Obligation 

Greg Munno and Megan Craig, Syracuse; 

Katherine Farrish, Central Connecticut State 

and Alex Richards, Syracuse 

A New Objective: Recasting Journalism Ethics Through 

the Racial Reckoning 

Brad Clark, Mount Royal University 

Exploring Moral Ecology in the Coverage of the 

2020 Racial Protests: Analyzing Sentiment and Intent 

Classification of Newspapers and Broadcast News 

Content in the US 

Gregory Gondwe, Colorado 

Discussant 

Ginny Whitehouse, Eastern Kentucky 

* Top Faculty Paper 

1 to 2:30 p.m. / T031 


and Electronic News Divisions 


Integrating Product Management into 

a Media Curriculum 


Allie Kosterich, Fordham 

Panelists 

Tony R. DeMars, Texas A&M-Commerce 

Sonia Garcia, Austonia.com 

Cindy Royal, Texas State 

Laura Smith, South Carolina 

The current media environment demands a continuous 

stream of products ready to meet audience needs, and 

the emergent role of product manager serves to prioritize 

them by providing a holistic perspective on a media company’s 

goals. Product managers bring new skillsets into 

the firm and help bridge the divide and align the priorities 

among editorial, business, and technology departments. 

How do we prepare students for “non-traditional” media 

roles focused on a mix of disciplines such as product 

management? What are the best practices or potential 

additions to media, journalism, and communication curriculums 

or syllabi that could better equip our students 

to strike out on their own in a rapidly changing industry? 

This panel includes experts from both MMEE and EEND 

divisions, as well as industry, to discuss best practices and 

potential virtues of adding product management pedagogy 

to journalism, media, and communication programs. 

1 to 2:30 p.m. / T032 

Minorities and Communication 



Surviving and/or Thriving? The State of Black- 

Owned News Operations in the Age of Protest 

and Pandemic 


Dorothy Bland, North Texas 

Panelists 

Gheni Platenburg, Auburn 


Connie Mitchell Ford, Maryland 

Miya Williams Fayne, California State-Fullerton 

Karanja Ajanaku, The New Tri-State Defender 

1 to 2:30 p.m. / T033 




Best of the Digital Competition 


Peg Achtmerman, Seattle 

Category I Website 

Individual/Team/Single Class – Large School (10K + UG 

Students) 

First Place 

The 61 Percent Project 

Adam Peruta and Melissa Chessher, Syracuse 

Second Place 

Finding Home by JOVRNALSIM 

Xinwen Chen, Nancy Guan, Connor Ling, 

Clarke Lowry, Julia Nash, Simrin Singh, 

Karen Wang, Abigail Washer, Yuwei “Ria” Xi 

and Robert Hernandez, Southern California 

Third Place 

Animating Queer History 

Michael Gawlik, North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

Category II App 

Individual/Team/Single Class - Large School (10K +) 

First Place 

Dimelo Vaccine Issue 

Frank Rojas, Emily Bonilla, Jillian Russell, 

Andres Guadron, 

and Steven Vargas, Southern California


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Second Place 

COVID Shopping Spree Instagram Filter by 

JOVRNALISM 

Eileen Chen, Jessica Hadiwijoyo, 

Justin Ly and Victoria Shin, Southern California 

Category III Website 

Individual/Team/Single Class - Small School (Under 

10K UG students) 

First Place 

This is For You Podcast Website 

Sarah Dougher and Tamara J. Welter, Biola 

Second Place 

Covid-19’s Impacts on Asian American Business Own 

Amber Chen and Tamara J. Welter, Biola 

Third Place 

Comparing the Corona 

Angela Hom and Tamara J. Welter, Biola 

Category V Website 

Multiple Class/Institution - Large School (10K + UG 

Students) 

First Place 

Pass da R.O.C.K. 

Renee Stevens, Syracuse 

Second Place 

Climate Change in Mississippi 

Danielle Angelo, Anne Florence Brown, 

Lydia Cates, Will Corley, Abbey Edmonson, 

Cody Farris, Jacob Meyers, Eliza Noe, 

Jared Poland, Billy Schuerman, 

Tamara Tyes, and Lauren Wilson, Mississippi 

Third Place 

Covid Chronicles 

USC Annenberg Visual Journalism Project, 

Southern California 

Category VI App 

Multiple Class/Institution - Large School (10K + UG 

students) 

First Place 

Beyond the Diorama - iOS App 

Edwin Sookiassian, lead app dev, with support from 

Rong Deng, 

Ralston Louie and others, Southern California 

Second Place 

Beyond the Diorama - VR Experience 

Rong Deng as lead with support from 

Edwin Sookiassian, 

Ralston Louie and others, Southern California 

Category VII Website 

Multiple Class/Institution - Small School (10K + UG 

Students) 

First Place 

Palmetto Report 

Joseph Kasko and MCOM 330, 311 

and 226 students, Winthrop 

Second Place 

Campus Reboot 

Susan Cardillo, Hartford 

1 to 2:30 p.m. / T034 




Creating Supportive Environments: Mentoring 

for Grad Students in All Stages 


Hayley T. Markovich, Florida 

Panelists 


Monique Luisi, Missouri 

Ben Lynn, Florida 

Erin Perry, Wayne State 

Laura Bruns, Wayne State 

Mentoring relationships play a critical role in supporting 

students as they navigate graduate programs and 

transition to early career scholars. Graduate students 

form supportive relationships with fellow students and 

faculty members as they navigate both academic and life 

challenges. This panel will include current students and 

faculty that will speak about their experiences as a both a 

mentee and a mentor, as well as finding support outside 

of their home institution. They will also offer advice on 

how to cultivate mentoring relationships that can help 

students address their unique needs. 

1 to 2:30 p.m. / T035 


and Adverting Division 


Using Portfolios to Enter and Move Up 

in a Career Across Disciplines 

Thursday 


Adrienne Wallace, Grand Valley State

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Panelists 

Karen C. Theveny, Pennsylvania State Brandywine 

Jessica D. Collins, Virginia Commonwealth 

Robin Spring, Grand Valley State 

Michele Lasley, Elon 

Peg Murphy, Columbia College 

Portfolios can be employed for more than just collecting 

visual creative samples for those considering copywriter 

or art director positions, they can also be used to show 

other practices, such as writing samples, social media 

posts, strategic communication strategies and plans, and 

more. In addition, portfolios are more than for getting into 

a career, they can also be a depository for accomplishments 

and used as a sales piece to move up in industry 

and to the next level of a career. How can portfolios be 

used across disciplines, and not just for creative practices, 

to get an entry-level job? How do portfolios help students 

to be continuous life-long learners, reflective, and show 

their work to navigate an upward career path? How are 

these created online? What are the equity, inclusion, 

and ethical issues related to portfolios, especially online 

portfolios? What about the students who do not have 

the equipment, software, bandwidth, or other means for 

creating online portfolios? Panelists will share their experiences 

and ideas. 

1 to 2:30 p.m. / T036 

Religion and Media Interest Group 


Religious Use of Communication Technologies 


Cylor Spaulding, California State, Fullerton 

“You Can’t Fight What’s Already Happening, Right?”: 

A Case Study of Christian Live-Streaming* 

LaRisa Anderson, Texas at Austin 

[EA] Rise of the Religious Influencer? Examining Faith- 

Based Influence on Social Media 

Brian Smith, Danielle Hallows, Maggie Vail, 

Caleb Porter, Alycia Burnett, Camilla Owens, 

and Kateryna Kravchenko, Brigham Young 



abstract. 

1 to 2:30 p.m. / T037 


and Magazine Media Division 


What I Learned in the Lockdown 



Panelists 

Paola Banchero, Alaska, Anchorage 

Kyung Jung Han, California State, Bakersfield 

John Kerezy, Cuyahoga Community College 

Jacqueline Marino, Kent State 

Darren Sweeney, Central Connecticut State 

Sheila Webb, Western Washington 

Many of us suffered from Zoom gloom after hours of looking 

at postage-stamp-size images in a Hollywood Squares 

format. But can techniques and activities that work better 

on Zoom be infused into traditional classes and online 

courses? The members of this panel will discuss ways of 

getting to know your students, keeping them engaged, 

and building trust and community on Zoom that translate 

to in-person and online writing, photo and design classes. 

1 to 2:30 p.m. / T038 



Teaching 


Doctors Are In: Keys to Success in Mentoring and 

Collaborating with Graduate Students on Research 


Raluca Cozma, Kansas State 

Panelists 

Ralph Beliveau, Oklahoma 


Mikayla Mace, Arizona 


Ajia Meux, Oklahoma 



Some of the most meaningful learning during a student’s 

graduate studies happens while collaborating with faculty 

mentors on conference or journal papers. This session 

discusses best practices and potential pitfalls of such 

research collaborations.


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1 to 2:30 p.m. / T039 



Development 


How to Get Through the Door 


Herman Howard, Angelo State 

Panelists 

Frank Russell, California State, Fullerton 


This panel covers creating materials (portfolio or C.V.) 

and strategic job searching. Graduate students interact 

with faculty in discussions about the opportunities and 

challenges faced during the transition to an academic or 

professional career. 

3 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. 

Break 

3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. 

Brooke Barnett, Butler, 

and Meghan Sanders, Louisiana State, 

along with invited guests will discuss leadership 

styles, transition into academic leadership 

and working across disciplines. 

5 p.m. to 5:30 pm – Conclusion 


This session is open only to 2021-22 IDL Jennifer H. 

McGill Class Fellows. 

1 to 2:30 p.m. / T041 

Kappa Tau Alpha and Association for Education in 


Thursday 

1 to 5:30 p.m. / T040 


Communication and Association of Schools of 



Institute for Diverse Leadership in Journalism 

and Communication Session 


Gracie Lawson-Borders, Howard, 


2021-22 Jennifer H. McGill Class Fellows 


David Brown, Temple 

Tamara Zellars Buck, Southeast Missouri State 

Moonhee Cho, Tennessee Knoxville 



Ammina Kothari, Rhode Island 

Gerry Lanosga, Indiana 

Ingrid Sturgis, Howard 

Bruno Takahashi, Michigan State 

1 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. – Welcome 


1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. 

Patricia Thompson, ACEJMC Executive Director, 

“What’s New with ACEJMC: Accrediting Updates” 

Executive Committee/Business Meeting 

KTA/AEJMC Awards Ceremony 


Beverly Horvit, Missouri, KTA Executive Director, 

and Tim P. Vos, Michigan State, 

AEJMC President, 2020-21 

The ceremony recognizes both associations’ award winners 

and divisions’ student paper winners. All are welcome. 

A KTA business meeting will follow the ceremony. 

KTA remains committed to its guiding principles of 

Knowledge, Truth and Accuracy. 

1 to 2:30 p.m. / T042 


Communication and Peter Lang Publishing 


AEJMC/Peter Lang Scholarsourcing Series: 

Book Roundup with the Scholarsourcing Authors, 

Editorial Committee, and Publisher 


Carolyn Bronstein, DePaul, Series Editor, 

AEJMC/Peter Lang Scholarsourcing Series 

Panelists 

Reporting Beyond the Problem: From Civic 

Journalism to Solutions Journalism 


and Nicole Dahmen, Oregon

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Promoting Monopoly: AT&T and the Politics of 

Public Relations, 1876-1941 

Karen Miller, Georgia 

PR Women with Influence: Breaking Through the 

Ethical and Leadership Challenges 

Juan Meng, Georgia, 

and Marlene S. Neill, Baylor 

Writing Home: Race, Newspapers, and the Culture 

of Place in Oklahoma 

Meta G. Carstarphen, Oklahoma 

Assassinations, Civil Rights and Riots: The Voices 

of Readers and Editors in Black Newspapers During 

the Chaos of 1968 

Brian Thornton, Stephynie C. Perkins 

and Christa L. Arnold, North Florida 

Algorithmic Audience: Rethinking News Literacy 

in the Age of Artificial Intelligence 

Roselyn Du, California State, Fullerton 

Victims, Heroes and Villains: How the Media 

Frame Mass Shootings 

Elizabeth Skewes 

and Kathleen I. Alaimo, Colorado 

Authors of recently published Scholarsourcing books and 

authors of works under contract will discuss their books, 

manuscripts in progress, and the process to secure a contract. 

The editorial committee and our Peter Lang editor 

will answer questions. 

1 to 2:30 p.m. / T043 

South Asia Communication Association (SACA) 


Turning the Page: Media Research on South Asia 

and Its Diaspora Worldwide I 


Jatin Srivastava, Ohio, 

Delwar Hossain, South Alabama; 

Shafiqur Rahman, South Carolina State, 

and Deb Aikat, North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

Session I — Exploring Patterns in South Asian Media 

Coverage 

Understanding the Media Framing of Information- 

Communication Technologies (ICTs) in South and 

Southeast Asia: Predicting Balancing Acts between 

Economic Development, Human Capital Improvement, 

and Socio-Political Transformation 

Yowei Kang, National Taiwan Ocean University, 

Taiwan 

and Kenneth C. C. Yang, Texas at El Paso 

Critical Analysis of South Asian Advocacy Journalism 

Practices for Advocating Environmental Issues During 


Shafiq Kamboh, Bremen University, Germany; 

Muhammad Ittefaq, Kansas 

and Muhammad Yousaf, University of Gujrat, 

Pakistan 

Harassment Against Women-a Bare Reflection of 

Patriarchy: Media Framing in Bangladesh 

Shabnam Azim and Fatema Samina Yasmin, 

University of Dhaka, Bangladesh 

Discussant 

Anantha Babbili, Texas A&M Corpus Christi 

Session II — Media and Information Literacy in South 

Asia 

Role of Cartoon Programmes in Creation of Indigenous 

Repository of Knowledge: A Study 

Aahana B. Chopra, Indraprastha College for 

Women, University of Delhi, India 

and Kulveen Trehan, Guru Gobind Singh 

Indraprastha University, India 

Assessing Digital Literacy Skills and Perception on 

ICT based Open Learning: A Case Study of IGNOU 

Counselors 

Anjulika Ghoshal, Indira Gandhi National Open 

University, India 

Escaping the Catch-22: Deconstructing the COVID- 

19 Vaccine Hesitancy in India through Social Media 

Sentiment Analysis 

Vaibhav Diwanji 

and Juliann Cortese, Florida State 

Discussant 

Sankaran Ramanathan, Mediaplus 

Session III — Health Information and Society 

Variability in Media Content of Public Health Outbreak 

Coverage: A Crisis Communication Approach 

Khairul Islam and Najma Akhther, Wayne State 

and Abu Syeed Rasel, Independent researcher, 

Bangladesh 

Impact of Socio-Economic Policies and COVID-19 upon 

Indian Diaspora in Malaysia and Singapore 

Sankaran Ramanathan, Mediaplus Consultancy 

Religious Beliefs and Health Fatalism about COVID-19 

in Bangladesh 

Md Didarul Islam, University of New Mexico 

Discussant 

Suman Mishra, Southern Illinois-Edwardsville


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Session IV — Gender in South Asian Media 

Gender Inequality in South Asian Media, with Special 

Focus on India 

Shirin Abbas, Independent researcher, India 

A Study on the (In)visible Workplace Harassment 

Against Women in Malayalam Cinema 

Muktha Papathy, Papathy Movements, India 

Gender Discrimination and Social Network 

Communication: A Dissertation on Young Female 

Facebook Users of the Bangladesh Scenario 

Salauddin Ahmed, Virtunus Inc., Bangladesh; 

Shudipta Sharma, University of Chittagong, 

Bangladesh 

and Abdullah-Al Mahmood, Enzaime Ltd, 

Bangladesh 

Discussant 

Enakshi Roy, Towson 

Session V — Political Issues and South Asian Media 

Elements and Strategies of Political Branding in India - 

A Conceptual Framework 

Preeti Surya 

and Amaresh Jha, GD Goenka University, India 

Political Interaction on Social Media in a Semi- 

Authoritarian Regime: A Case Study of Bangladesh 

Kazi Mehedi Hasan, Southern Illinois, 

Carbondale 

News Sourcing in Kashmir Press: A Political Economic 

Analysis 

Gowhar Hassan, Central University of Kashmir, 

India 

Discussant 

Michelle Michael, Ohio 

Session VI — Contemporary Issues in Journalism and 

Media 

Media Regulation in India: Issues and Concerns in the 

New Media Eco System 

Sanjay Bharthur, Manipal Institute of 

Communication, India 

Contemporizing the Tradition: An Exploration of the 

Audience Response to the New Wave Marathi Industry 

G. Triveni, Sharvari Raut, 

and Sonali Srivastav, National Institute of Fashion 

Technology, India 

Exploring Threats and Challenges Faced by Pakistani 

Reporters in the Province of Baluchistan Pakistan 

Babar Shah, and Saqib Riaz, Allama Iqbal Open 

University, Pakistan 

and Sana Rashid, Independent researcher, Pakistan 

Discussant 

Uche Onyebadi, Texas Christian 

In our commitment to the 2021 AEJMC conference theme 

“Turning the Page,” the South Asia Communication 

Association (SACA) will host an interactive paper session. 

Research papers were selected in a peer-reviewed 

competition. SACA was constituted in 2015 at the AEJMC 

conference in San Francisco. Instituted as an umbrella 

organization with a presence in key organizations, SACA 

currently constitutes 2,086 members worldwide. If you 

have questions, email SACA curator, Deb Aikat , North Carolina, Chapel Hill. No pre-registration 

required. All are welcome. 

3 to 4:30 p.m. / T044 


Communication 



Division 

Topic I - Emotions and their Role in Communicating 

Science, Health, Environment and Risk Topics 

04-1500-01 • Beyond Fear Appeals: The Role of Hope 

in Improving Effectiveness of Health Messages 

Youngji Seo, Bartosz Wojdynski 

and Jongmin Lee, Georgia 

and Hyoyeun Jun, Salve Regina 

04-1500-02 • The Impact of Emotion and Humor on 

Support for Global Warming Action 

Meaghan McKasy, Utah Valley; 

and Michael Cacciatore, Georgia 

and Sara Yeo, Utah; 

and Jennifer Shiyue Zhang, Illinois; 

and John Cook, Monash 

and Rhoda Olaleye, Georgia 

04-1500-03 • Are Emotion-Expressing Messages More 

Shared on Social Media? A Meta-Analytic Review 

Junhan Chen, John Leach 

and Yumin Yan, Maryland 

04-1500-04 • The Distance Between Us: Effects of Inter- 

Group Similarity on Donation Intention 

and Emotions during the COVID-19 Pandemic 

Jody Chin Sing Wong, Buffalo 

Discussant 

Sumin Shin, Wisconsin 

Topic II - Environmental Communication 

04-1500-05 • Recycling as a Planned Behavior: The 

Moderating Role of Perceived Behavioral Control 

Zhuling Liu, Janet Yang, Susan Clark 

and Michael Shelly, Buffalo 

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04-1500-06 • “I Had No Idea That Greenwashing Was 

Even a Thing”: Identifying the Cognitive Mechanisms 

of Exemplars in Greenwashing Literacy Interventions 

Nicholas Eng, Pennsylvania State; 

and Carlina DiRusso, Hope College; 

and Cassandra Troy, Pennsylvania State; 

and Jason Freeman, Brigham Young; 

and Meng Qi Liao 

and Yuan Sun, Pennsylvania State 

04-1500-07 • Effects of Substantiation and Specificity of 

Social Media Green Messages on Audience Responses 

Sumin Shin, Wisconsin at Whitewater 

and Eyun-Jung Ki, Alabama 

04-1500-08 • [EA] From “Blue” Planet to “Our” Planet: 

Nature Documentaries Demonstrate Increasing 

Emphasis on Collective Identity Over Time 

Robert Lull and Wes Wise, California State, Fresno 

Discussant 

Joanne Littlefield, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural 

College 

Topic III — Communicating about Risk 

04-1500-09 • Risk or Efficacy? How Age and Seniority 

Influenced the Usage of Hearing Protection Devices: 

A Cross-Sectional Survey in China 

Jian Rui, Peng Xu 

and Ying Liu, South China University of Technology 

04-1500-10 • Media Sources in Risk Communication in 

China: Official Press, Market-oriented Press, 

and Medical We Media 

Tianyi Yang, Fang Wu, Chen Zhang, Yang Yu 

and Deya Xu, Shanghai Jiao Tong 

04-1500-11 • [EA] Third-person-hypothesis of Climate 

Change Campaigns in China: the Impact of Disaster 

Vulnerability and Social Media Use on Conformity 

Behavior 

Linnan Wang, Yuan He, Tao Li 

and Yicheng Zhu, Beijing Normal 

04-1500-12 • [EA] Beliefs and Practices around 

Antibiotics Use and Resistance in Singapore Using 

the Protection Motivation Theory 

May Lwin, Si Yu Lee 

and Shan Shan Yang, Nanyang Technological 

04-1500-13 • Light at the End of the Tunnel: 

Implications of COVID-19 Vaccine Availability 

and Vaccination Intention 

Haoran Chu, Buffalo and Sixiao Liu, Texas Tech 

Discussant 

Karen Akerlof, George Mason 

Topic IV — Social Media 

04-1500-14 • Promoting COVID-19 Social Distancing 

on Social Media: The Persuasive Role of Threat 

and Controlling Language Representation 

Nicholas Eng, Ryan Wang, Rachel Peng 

and Zheng Cui, Pennsylvania State 

04-1500-15 • Social Media Exposure, Interpersonal 

Communication, and Tampon Use: A Multigroup 

Comparison Based on Network Structure 

Yin Yang, Pennsylvania State; 

and Xin Ma, Maryland; 

and Jessica Myrick, Pennsylvania State 

04-1500-16 • Pandemic in the Age of Social Media: A 

Content Analysis of Health Organizations Social Media 

Engagement Strategies During COVID-19 Outbreak 

Yuanwei Lyu, Brian Britt 

and Ningyang Wang, Alabama 

04-1500-17 • Young Adults’ Preferences of Vaping 

Content on Instagram: Qualitative Interviews Utilizing 

the Associative Imagery Technique 

Jordan Alpert and Amanda Bradshaw, Florida; 

and Heather Riddell, West Florida; 

and Huan Chen and Xiaobei Chen, Florida 

04-1500-18 • [EA] Understanding COVID-19-related 

Stigma: A Topic Modelling and Exploratory Analysis 

of 353k Tweets 

Mohammad Ali, Syracuse 

Discussant 


Topic V — Communicating Science 

04-1500-19 • Exploring the Cosmos: The Rhetoric of 

Successful Science Television 

Alexandrea Matthews, Florida 

04-1500-20 • Understanding Scientific Optimism Across 

45 Countries: Effects of Internet Exposure, Trust, and 

Their Interdependence 

Chen Luo, Tsinghua; Communication University 

of China; 

and Kaiyuan Ji, Tsinghua; 

and Yulong Tang, Communication University 

of China 

04-1500-21 • The Knowledge Gap Hypothesis in 

Malaysia: Assessing Factors Shaping the Public’s 

Perceived Familiarity of Nuclear Energy 

Jiemin Looi, Texas at Austin 

and Shirley Ho, Nanyang Technological 

04-1500-22 • Correcting Science Misinformation in an 

Authoritarian Country: An Experiment from China 

Wenting Yu 

and Fei Shen, City University of Hong Kong 

04-1500-23 • [EA] Impact of Science Journalism 

Experience on Information Selection from Press 

Releases: A Novel Quasi-Experimental Approach 

Leigh Anne Tiffany, Michigan State


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Discussant 

Tony Van Witsen, Alma College 

Topic VI — Health Messaging and Platforms 

04-1500-24 • Fast Food Menu Calorie Labeling 

Contexts as Complex Contributing Factors to Overeating 

Kyeongwon Kwon, Pei Wang 

and Christopher Garcia, Florida State 

04-1500-25 • Challenging the Stigma of a “Woman’s 

Illness” and “Feminine Problem”: A Cross-Cultural 

Analysis of News Stories about Eating Disorders and Men 

Scott Parrott, Kim Bissell, 

Nicholas Eckhart and Bumsoo Park, Alabama 

04-1500-26 • [EA] The Prevalence of Design Features 

Known to Hinder the Processing of Drug Risks 

and Side-Effects: A Content Analysis of TV Ads for 

Prescription Drugs 

Viorela Dan 

and Stephanie Van Stee, Missouri–St. Louis 

04-1500-27 • [EA] Why Transmedia Edutainment? 

Exploring Young Adults’ Reception on its Role, 

Potential, and Limitations for Sustainable Development 

Aya Shata, Michelle Seelig, 

Barbara Millet, Nick Carcioppolo 

and Soyoon Kim, Miami 

04-1500-28 • [EA] Effectiveness of VR Intervention in 

Promoting Sustainable Hand Hygiene 

Haohan Hu, Hong Kong 

Discussant 

Adina Schneeweis, Oakland 

Topic VII — Information Dissemination and Connection 

04-1500-29 • [EA] Who am I Connected with? 

Community Detection and Effects in an Online Peer-to- 

Peer Support Forum 

Ellie F. Yang, Wisconsin at Madison 

and Yini Zhang, Buffalo 

and Shifan Zhang, Wisconsin at Madison 

04-1500-30 • [EA] Closing the Barn Door? Factcheckers 

as Retroactive Gatekeepers of the 

Covid-19 “Infodemic” 

Jane B. Singer, City University of London 

04-1500-31 • [EA] A Message from Grandma: A Research 

on the Relationship between Social Media Reposting 

Behavior and Subjective Well-being in the Elderly 

Geng Wang 

and Jian Xu, Shanghai Jiaotong 

04-1500-32 • Understanding Public Reaction to 

Celebrity Suicide Cases in Online News Comments 

Muhammad Ittefaq, Kansas; 

and Shafiq Ahmad Kamboh, Bremen; 

and Azhar Iqbal, U of Management and Technology; 

and Urwah Iftikhar, Lahore College for Women; 

and Mauryne Abwao, Kansas; 

and Rauf Arif, Texas Tech 

04-1500-33 • [EA] Truths, Lies, and Compliance with 

Covid-19 Guidance 

Melissa Tully and Kajsa Dalrymple, Iowa; 

and Mary Beth Deline, Illinois State; 

and Kylah Hedding, Iowa 

Discussant 

Ronald A. Yaros, Maryland 


abstract. 


04-1500-34 • [EA] Pressure to Perform: Gendered 

Expectations of Journalists’ Social Media Use 

Stefanie Davis Kempton, Pennsylvania State Altoona 

and Carlina DiRusso, Hope College 

04-1500-35 • [EA] Egyptian Female Podcasters: 

Creating Social Change Through Public Pedagogy 

Kim Fox, The American University in Cairo; 

and Yasmeen Ebada, Independent Researcher 

04-1500-36 • Touch in Disaster Reporting: Television 

Coverage before Hurricane Maria 

Qucheng Zhang, Bruno Takahashi, Manuel Chavez, 

and Yadira Nieves, Michigan State 

04-1500-37 • Longitudinal Study of Social Media 

Policies in U.S. Television Newsrooms 

Anthony Adornato and Allison Frisch, Ithaca 

04-1500-38 • I Wouldn’t React to it Because of the 

Algorithm: How Can Self-Presentation Moderate News 

Consumption* 

Heidi Makady, Florida 

04-1500-39 • The Impact of Media Algorithms on The 

Habermassian Public Sphere and Discourse** 

Kendal Heavner, Arkansas 

Discussant 

Janice Neil, Ryerson 

* Second Place Student Paper 

** Third Place Student Paper 


abstract. 


Topic — The Policy and Politics of News 

04-1500-40 • [EA] Framing Terrorism in a Global 

Media Conduit: Comparing Muslim-Majority 

and Muslim-Minority Countries 

Michelle Michael 

and Satrajit Ghosh Chowdhury, Ohio 

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04-1500-41 • News Use, Partisanship and Political 

Attitudes in Africa: A Cross-national Analysis of Four 

African Societies Using the Communication Mediation 

Approach 

Abdul Wahab Gibrilu, Chinese University 

of Hong Kong 

04-1500-42 • Decade of Internet Censorship in India 

Examining Google Transparency Reports and Content 

Takedowns from 2010-2020 


04-1500-43 • Testing the Protest Paradigm on TV and 

Newspapers’ Social Media Coverage of Chilean 

and Colombian Social Unrest* 

Victor Garcia-Perdomo, José Augusto Ventin, 

Juan Camilo Hernandez Rodriguez 

and Maria Isabel Magana, Universidad de la Sabana 

04-1500-44 • Effects of Individualism and Race on 

Visual Processing: An Eye-Tracking Experiment 

Tamara Welter and Josh Brunt, Biola 

Discussant 

Uche Onyebadi, Texas Christian 

* First Place Winner, Latin American Communication 

Research and Researchers Award, International 

Communication Division 


abstract. 

Magazine Media Division 

04-1500-49 • Cancel or Be Canceled? How U.S. Arts 

and Culture Journalists Perceive the Influence 

of Politics and Cancel Culture in their Work 

Kelsey Whipple, Massachusetts-Amherst 

Discussant 

Carol Zuegner, Creighton 


Topic — Historical and Contemporary Visual 

Communication 

04-1500-45 • [EA] Cognitive and Attitudinal Processing 

of Visual Frames in 360-Degree Environmental 

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Messages 

Sungwon Chung and Johnny Sparks, Ball State 

04-1500-46 • [EA] What “Lens-Based Workers” Are 

Owed: An Exploration of the Photo Bill of Rights 

Keith Greenwood, Ryan Thomas 

and Cory Macneil, Missouri 

04-1500-47 • [EA] A Powerful, spiritual, win-win situation: 

Commercial authenticity in Professional Birth 

Photography 

Anat Leshnick, Colorado at Boulder 

and Rivka Ribak, University of Haifa 

04-1500-48 • [EA] Ye Olde Europa Gin Mill: How War 

Looked in Isolationist Cartoons of 1941 

Darryl Frazier and Fred Vultee, Wayne State 

Discussant 



abstract. 

3 to 4:30 p.m. / T045 

Communication Theory and Methodology 



Questionable Research Practice and Risk of Bias 

in Communication Research 


Rosie Jahng, Wayne State 

Panelists 


Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn, Georgia 


Mike Schmierbach, Pennsylvania State 

3 to 4:30 p.m. / T046 

History Division and AEJMC Council of Affiliates 


Covering 9/11, Twenty Years Later 


Pam Parry, Southeast Missouri 

and Erika Pribanic-Smith, Texas at Arlington 

Panelists 

Sheryl Kennedy Haydel, Loyola New Orleans 


Carolyn Kitch, Temple 

Pete Smith, Mississippi State 

Hazel Cole, West Georgia 

Will Sutton, The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans 

Advocate


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3 to 4:30 p.m. / T047 

International Communication 

and Cultural and Critical Studies Divisions 

3 to 4:30 p.m. / T049 




Communicating the Coronavirus: Stress Testing 

the Resilience of Authoritarian States 


Volha Kananovich, Appalachian State 

Panelists 

Anna Popkova, Western Michigan 

Mehrnaz Khanjani, Iowa 

Dzmitry Yuran, Florida Institute of Technology 

Ge Zhu, Iowa 

Vasil Navumau, University of Bremen 

For authoritarian states, this was a particularly high-stakes 

test. Their success in curbing the virus—and communicating 

the effectiveness of their efforts—could help 

legitimize authoritarian governance as better prepared to 

enforce emergency measures and secure public consent 

to limitations on freedoms of assembly and movement in 

the name of the common good. The panel will explore 

these outcomes (and the communicative efforts of various 

actors -- e.g., governments, journalists, digital activists 

-- that contributed to them) and theorize ways in which 

comparative communication research can contribute to a 

more nuanced understanding of sociopolitical effects of 

global disruptions. 

3 to 4:30 p.m. / T048 


Global Video Streaming War: Competition, 

Business Models, Consumer Behavior 

and Local OTTs 



Panelists 

Robert Picard, Oxford 

Jacqueline Donaldson, Vice President, Global 

Product Strategy, Disney Streaming Services 

David Chu, CEO, Digital Media Rights 


Tom Evens, Ghent University 


The ever-growing adoption of video streaming services 

is a game-changer in the television industry. While 

Netflix has been a dominant player in the video streaming 

industry for the past decade, more traditional TV service 

providers have also entered the video streaming market, 

resulting in fierce competition and more consumer 

choices. Recognizing changing consumer behavior, this 

panel discusses competition among video streaming platforms, 

their business models and competitive strategies, 

and how the emergence of over-the-top (OTT) platforms 

affect local television content providers as well as local 

streaming service providers on a global scale. 

Thursday 


and Sports Communication Interest Group 


State of the Law: NCAA and the Use of Athletes’ 

Name, Image, and Likeness 


Jason Martin, DePaul 

Panelists 

Katie Lever, Texas at Austin 

Lauren Smith, Indiana 

DeWayne Peevy, Director of Athletics, DePaul 

Taylor Stapleton, Senior Associate Athletics Director 

for Revenue Generation and Strategic 

Initiatives, DePaul 

Claudine McCarthy, Editor, Campus Legal Advisor 

& College Athletics and the Law, Wiley 

3 to 4:30 p.m. / T050 


and Internships and Careers Interest Group 


The Ethical Obligations of Journalism Educators 


Ryan Thomas, Missouri 

Panelists 

Stephanie Craft, Illinois 

Stephanie Bluestein, California State Northridge 

Rachel Grant, Florida 

Sue Ellen Christian, Western Michigan 

Paul Glader, King’s College 

As journalism’s advertising-based economic model withers, 

what are the ethical responsibilities of journalism

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educators in preparing their students for this environment? 

What duties are owed to students, particularly at 

the early stages of their college careers when they are still 

figuring out if they want to pursue journalism as a career? 

Does this include a duty of candor? What considerations 

must educators take into account when they discuss the 

economics of news in their journalism classes? This panel 

will explore these questions and will provide best practices 

for educators navigating these discussions in their 

classrooms. 

3 to 4:30 p.m. / T051 

Newspaper and Online News 

and Scholastic Journalism Divisions 


Teaching News Terrifically in the 21st Century: 

Innovative Teaching Ideas for the Journalism 

Classroom 



Panelists 

Amanda Sturgill, Elon 

Ahmed Mansoori, United Arab Emirates 

Brian Creech, Temple 

Sonali Kudva, Tampa 

This panel will feature presentations of selected entries 

to the “Teaching News Terrifically in the 21st Century” 

competition. 

3 to 4:30 p.m. / T052 


and Small Programs Interest Group 


Small Program, Big Impact: Public Relations 

at Small Colleges and Universities 


Kate Keib, Oglethorpe 

members teach all of the PR classes, as well as advise 

PRSSA. This presents opportunities such as deeper mentoring 

relationships between faculty and students and 

autonomy. However, it also presents challenges such as 

faculty managing the entire roster of students, creating, 

revising and updating all courses and overseeing a very 

demanding organization, PRSSA. The goal of this panel is 

to share ideas and best practices from faculty at small 

programs in order to support other faculty in similar situations. 

Panelists will share their methods as well as suggest 

ways to form a lasting community that can support one 

another. A practitioner from a local firm will participate 

as a panelist in order to highlight the advantages students 

from small programs offer as well as ways small programs 

can help support students who may not have the advantage 

of a large faculty/university. 

3 to 4:30 p.m. / T053 

Commission on the Status of Minorities 


Teaching Journalism Through Transformative Travel 


Sharon Bramlett-Solomon, Arizona State 

Panelists 

Loren Ghiglione, Northwestern 

Alyssa Karas, Director of Audience Development, 

Vanity Fair 

Wilbert Rideau, Capital Defense Consultant 

Loren Ghiglione and his students traveled the United 

States for three months to interview Americans about 

race, gender, sexual orientation, and other hot-button 

identity issues. The result was a book Genus Americanus: 

Hitting the Road in Search of America’s Identity. This 

panel will focus on how Ghiglione developed a course 

around a 14,000-mile trip and how such out-of-class 

activities enhances not only journalism, but the wider 

principles of its social responsibility mandates. Other 

issues to be discussed include planning and implementing 

the course, selection of students, cost, and impact on 

the students involved. 

Panelists 

Natalie Tindall, Lamar; 

Cathy Rogers, Loyola; 


Jennifer Bond, Bond Moroch, New Orleans 

Public Relations faculty at small universities face unique 

challenges. Often, just one or two full time faculty


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3 to 4:30 p.m. / T054 


and Magazine Media Division 


Pious Advocates for Social Change: Intersections 

of Religion and Activism 


Betsy O’Donovan, Western Washington 

3 to 4:30 p.m. / T056 



Professional Freedom and Responsibility 

PF&R Award Panel Session 

First Amendment Award Presentation and Q&A 


Jason M. Shepard, California State, Fullerton 

Panelists 

Jordan Morehouse, Clemson 

Derek Moscato, Western Washington 


3 to 4:30 p.m. / T055 


Communication Council of Divisions 


Becoming a Public Scholar: Connecting Research 

to the Popular 


Katie Foss, Middle Tennessee State 

Panelists 

Katie Foss, Middle Tennessee State 


David P. Perlmutter, Texas Tech 

Beth Daley, Editor, The Conversation 

We often discuss the importance of bridging our academic 

work to the profession. What we haven’t addressed 

is the need to bring scholarship into the public sphere, 

using our research to inform and even persuade an audience 

outside of the academy. Given the current climate, 

it is vital that we train professors on how to make this 

leap. This panel highlights ways in which professors can 

connect to “regular” people, with ideas on how to transform 

research into a popular piece, become known as an 

expert, and be interviewed. 

2021 AEJMC First Amendment Award 

Recipient: Omar Jimenez, Correspondent, CNN 

Live on CNN covering public protests of George Floyd’s 

death at the hands of police, correspondent Omar 

Jimenez and his crew were arrested for practicing journalism. 

Jimenez and his arrest, live on the air, embodies the 

importance of the First Amendment to American journalists 

in 2020, including those who brought stories of racial 

injustice into the homes of Americans. Jimenez is a CNN 

Correspondent based in Chicago. Jimenez started with 

CNN in 2017 for the network’s affiliate service, CNN 

Newsource, based in Washington, D.C. While there, he 

covered breaking news stories for CNN’s more than 900 

affiliates nationwide reporting both in the United States 

and internationally in France and Mexico. Prior to joining 

CNN, Jimenez worked for WBAL-TV in Baltimore, 

Maryland where he was a reporter and fill-in anchor. 

While there, he received an individual Emmy nomination 

for general assignment reporting. He covered the trials for 

the officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray, was the 

lead story on the station’s Emmy award-winning special 

on opioids, and published pieces on opioid influence in 

Maryland and the fight against child sex trafficking across 

the state. Jimenez began his on-air career as a multimedia 

journalist for WGEM- TV in Quincy, IL. He graduated 

from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern 

University, where he also played on the varsity men’s 

basketball team. 

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3 to 4:30 p.m. / T057 



Research 

Research Award Panel Session 

2021 James A. Tankard Book Award 



Winner: 

Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, 

Smartphones, & the New Protest #Journalism 


Allissa V. Richardson, Southern California 

Finalists (Listed in alpha order) 

Democracy Without Journalism?: Confronting the 

Misinformation Society 


Victor Pickard, Pennsylvania 

Community-Centered Journalism: Engaging People, 

Exploring Solutions, and Building Trust 

[Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois 

Press, 2020] 


The Tankard Award was established in 2007 to honor 

James Tankard, Texas at Austin, former author of 

Journalism Monographs, for his many contributions to the 

field of journalism and mass communication education. 

The award winner will be recognized during AEJMC’s 

General Session. 

3 to 4:30 p.m. / T058 

Urban Communication Foundation 

Award Panel Session 

Gene Burd Awards for Excellence in Urban 

Journalism and Urban Journalism Research 


Gary Gumpert, president, Urban Communication 

Foundation 

Presentation of the 2021 Gene Burd Award for 

Excellence in in Urban Journalism 

Recipient 

“Cities Edge Into the New Normal” 

Gabrielle Gurley, deputy editor, The American 

Prospect 

Presentation of the 2021 Gene Burd Award for Research 

in Urban Journalism Studies 

Recipient 

“Exploring the Role of Black Newspapers Filling 

Urban Government News Coverage” 


Panelists 

Gabrielle Gurley, The American Prospect 


Susan J. Drucker, Hofstra 

Paul Voakes, Colorado 

Gary Gumpert, Urban Communication Foundation 

Gabrielle Gurley is the 2021 recipient of the $5,000 

Burd Award for Excellence in Urban Journalism. In 

her 20-year career in journalism, Gabrielle Gurley has 

covered a wide variety of urban issues, often focusing 

on transportation, infrastructure and economic development. 

Before joining The American Prospect, Gurley 

was a reporter and editor at CommonWealth magazine 

for 10 years. Her work has been honored by the National 

Association of Black Journalists and Capitolbeat, the 

Association of Capitol Editors and Reporters. 

George L. Daniels is the 2021 recipient of the $2,500 

Burd Award for Research in Urban Journalism. He is 

associate professor of journalism and creative media in 

the College of Communication and Information Sciences 

at Alabama. Before becoming an educator, he was a 

local television news producer at stations in Richmond, 

Cincinnati, and Atlanta. Daniels studies the role of the 

Black press in American cities in the era of digital media. 

Both awards, which honor Gene Burd, professor 

emeritus of Journalism at the University of Texas and a 

pioneer in urban journalism studies, are jointly sponsored 

by AEJMC and the Urban Communication Foundation. 

5 to 6:30 p.m. / T059 

Advertising and Cultural and Critical Studies Divisions 


Contextual Advertising and BLM Appropriation 


Vanessa Bravo, Elon 

Panelists 


Juan Mundel, Arizona State 


Yadira Nieves-Pizarro, Universidad Interamericana 

de Puerto Rico - Recinto de Bayamón 

Jing Yang, Loyola Chicago


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As brands take to advertising to address the ongoing 

fight against racism, inequality, and discrimination in 

the United States as a means to appeal to their publics, 

questions remain about the motivations behind their 

support. Previous research shows that when there is not 

an apparent fit between the brand and the social issue, 

consumers make attributions about messaging that can 

lead to negative outcomes, such as negative brand attitudes, 

perceptions of brand opportunism, brand hate, and 

boycotts. Panelists will discuss how the stories told about 

people of color in American advertising have changed in 

the past 50 years, consumer perceptions and responses 

to the brands’ messaging about BLM, as well as agencies’ 

challenges moving forward. 

5 to 6:30 p.m. / T060 

History and Law and Policy Divisions 


Media Law Research in a Time of Crisis 



Panelists 

Qinqin Wang, Louisiana 

Kyu Ho Youm, Oregon 

Jon Peters, Georgia 


states, a battle that pits Russia against the West with 

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in between a contest of 

great power politics. As three former-Soviet countries 

that are NATO and EU members, Estonia, Latvia and 

Lithuania are ground zero for Russia’s efforts at division 

and disruption. The Baltic states are the eastern edge of 

the western defense alliance, bordering Russia and part of 

its “near abroad;” this makes them a sensitive and critical 

border zone between great powers. The Baltic response 

to its old conqueror’s activities are both special and 

instructive. The reaction is distinctive because the threat 

appears existential to its leaders. It offers lessons because 

how the information war proceeds in the Baltics is a natural 

laboratory indicating Russian intentions, and the range 

of reactions to its aggressively ambitious foreign policy 

goals. Writing in Foreign Affairs, Swedish Prime Minister 

Carl Bilt said in 1994 that the Baltics are the “litmus 

test” for Russia’s international intentions. Disinformation, 

and even hybrid war, are areas of critical concern to the 

EU and the US, but the canaries in the coal mine are in 

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The proposed panelists 

have extensive experience in the Baltic states, and bring 

perspectives from Indigenous citizens, local Russian 

speakers, national governments, activists, journalists, and 

NATO, as well as themes of Russian media as part of its 

foreign policy. 

5 to 6:30 p.m. / T062 

Magazine Media and Visual Communication Divisions 

Thursday 

5 to 6:30 p.m. / T061 

International Communication 



Information Wars in the Baltic States: 

Russia’s Long Shadow 


Janis Chakars, Neumann 

Panelists 

Solvita Denisa-Liepniece, Vidzeme University 

of Applied Sciences, Latvia 

Joseph Ellis, Wingate 

Asta Zelenkauskaite, Drexel 

Clinton Glenn, McGill University, Canada 

Respondent 

Indra Ekmanis, Foreign Policy Research Institute 

This panel focuses on the information wars in the Baltic 


Innovative Teaching Tips (Teaching Marathon) 


Charlie Butler, Oregon 

and Sabrina Habib, South Carolina 

Panelists 


How to Help Students Take Terrific Notes 

Jeremy Caplan, CUNY 

Adding “Pop” to Pop Culture 

Jessica Collins, Virginia Commonwealth 

Teaching 360 Video Remotely and Without 

Equipment: Simple Ways to Get Your Students to 

Create Interactive Visual Content 

Danielle Deavours, Montevallo 

Open Houses for Online Mentoring 

Sarah Fisher, Florida 

Virtual Peer Evaluation Exercise in Small Groups 

Rebecca Cooney, Washington State 

Finding Partners on the Continuum 

James Kelly, Indiana

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Asynch Architect: Designing a Journey—Not Just a 

Destination 

TJ (Tara) Mesyn, Michigan State 

Count the Headlines: A One-Class Period, Group 

Introduction to Research Techniques 

Jeremy Sarachan, St. John Fisher 

2021 VISC Tenured Teaching Award Recipient 

Kim Kimenich, San Francisco State 

2021 VISC Non-Tenured Teaching Award Recipient 

T.J. Thomson, Queensland University of 

Technology 


Chance Encounter: A Peaceful Interlude 

in a Topsy-Turvy World 

Carol B. Schwalbe, Arizona 

What Can I Count? Using Data Sets to Brainstorm 

Longform Reporting Ideas 

Lisa Phillips, SUNY New Paltz 

Building community with bright spots 

Mitzi Lewis, MSU Texas 

Pivot to test? 

Sharon Bloyd-Peshkin, Columbia College 

Chicago 

Peer Critiques — Interactive Critical Engagement 

Sheila Webb, Western Washington 

5 to 6:30 p.m. / T063 


and Communication Theory and Methodology Divisions 


Textual Data Analysis and Mining in an Era 

of Big Data 



Panelists 


Mohammad Yousuf, New Mexico 

Karen Han, Ball State 


Fu-Shing Sun, Ball State 

Massive unstructured datasets of communication are 

challenging traditional, human-driven approaches to 

analyze textual data and content. Such new methodological 

advancements of computational content analysis, 

text mining, and text analytics have been gradually 

introduced into mass communications and practiced by 

various media scholars across different research areas. 

Those invited scholars and experts will share their latest 

research works by engaging those textual data analysis 

techniques, which can preserve the strengths of traditional 

content analysis, with its systematic rigor and contextual 

sensitivity, while also maximizing the large-scale 

capacity of Big Data and the algorithmic accuracy of 

computational methods. 

5 to 6:30 p.m. / T064 

Minorities and Communication 

and Mass Communication and Society Divisions 


BLM: How PR, Advertising, and Journalism 

Benefit from the Conflict 



Panelists 

Alyssa Richardson, Southern California 

Maria De Moya, DePaul 

Candice Edrington, South Carolina 

5 to 6:30 p.m. / T065 

Public Relations and Communicating Science, Health, 

Risk, and Environment Divisions 


Misinformation, Racism, and the Magnification 

of Health Inequities: Research Informing Publics 

and the Practice (and Vice Versa) 


Brooke McKeever, South Carolina 

Panelists 

Maria E. Len-Rios, Georgia 

Lee Ann Kahlor, Texas 

Jungmi Jun, South Carolina 

Arunima Krishna, Boston 

Ellie Yang, Wisconsin-Madison 

Misinformation has long been a problem in our field; 

however, the COVID-19 pandemic, racist rhetoric tweeted 

from the White House, national protests inspired by 

Black Lives Matter and other events in 2020-2021 brought 

issues related to truth, trust, and social justice to the 

forefront of public discourse. In this panel, scholars will 

1) discuss how their work contributes to our collective 

understanding of misunderstanding, and 2) set a research 

agenda for how future work can more closely examine 

the intersection of misinformation, racism, health disparities, 

and social justice.


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5 to 6:30 p.m. / T066 



Recent Challenges to Student Press Freedom 


Nancy L. Green, chair, AEJMC Council of Affiliates 

5 to 6:30 p.m. / T068 

Community Journalism 

and Small Programs Interest Groups 


The Adults in the Room: How Student News 

Publications Are Representing, and Protecting, 

Their Campus Community During COVID-19 

Panelists 

Hadar Harris, executive director, Student Press 

Law Center 

Mike Hiestand, senior legal counsel, Student Press 

Law Center 

Student Press Law Center Executive Director, Hadar 

Harris and Senior Legal Counsel, Mike Hiestand, will 

review recent challenges to student press freedom and 

share updates about the ways in which the pandemic has 

impacted student press freedom. They include: access to 

information, understanding student journalists as providing 

a legally relevant “essential service,” troubling new 

modes of censorship”, and challenges to financial sustainability 

for college media. They also will discuss the 

recent BL v. Mahanoy case at the US Supreme Court and 

the impact the decision has on student journalism. 

5 to 6:30 p.m. / T067 


and Religion and Media Interest Group 


Jeffrey Riley, Georgia Southern 

Panelists 

Jeff Gauger, content adviser and professional 

in residence, Louisiana State 

Jackie Incollingo, Rider 

Eliza Noe, editor-in-chief, The Daily Mississippian, 

Mississippi State 

Carrie Buchanan, John Carroll 

Sophia Maltese, editor-in-chief, The Carroll News, 

John Carroll 

As American universities attempted to reopen face-to-face 

instruction during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic in 

fall 2020, and as the number of positive cases skyrocketed, 

student newspapers became the outspoken voice of 

reason and concern. They used their editorial sections to 

carry the voices of concerned students, faculty and staff 

that felt ignored by administration. This panel will bring 

in those student reporters and their advisers to talk about 

the challenges of representing, and acting as a voice for, 

a college community during the pandemic. 

Thursday 


The Arab Spring at 10: Journalism, Feminism 

and Faith 


Carolyn Nielsen, Western Washington 

Panelists 

Soumaya Berjeb, L’Institut de Presse et des Sciences 

de l’Information 

Arwa Kooli, L’Institut de Presse et des Sciences de 

l’Information 

Sahar Khamis, Maryland 

Naila Hamdy, American in Cairo 

The 10th anniversary of the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings 

provides an opportunity to reflect on the mixed results of 

changes it sparked in the region — particularly as they 

relate to the status of women working in the media sector. 

Ongoing debates about democratic reforms and the 

role of religion in the government present challenges and 

opportunities that this panel will explore. 

5 to 6:30 p.m. / T069 

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer 

and Entertainment Studies Interest Groups 


Queering the Quarter: Intersectional 

Representations in Film, Television, 

& Streaming Shows 


Jennifer Huemmer, Ithaca 

Panelists 


Mia L. Anderson, Azusa Pacific 

Gregory Adamo, Morgan State 

Joseph Sirianni, Niagara 

Beth Shiller, Ohio 

This panel would focus on intersectional representations

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of traditionally marginalized identities in film, television, 

and streaming shows made in and about New Orleans 

(NOLA). Some examples are American Horror Story 

Coven, Project Power, Big Freedia, Nightwatch, NCIS 

New Orleans, Treme, Interview with a Vampire, Girls 

Trip, Black And Blue, Always for Pleasure, and The 

Princess and the Frog, to name a few. The panel would 

focus on not only the films and television/streaming 

shows based in and on NOLA, but also the attraction 

of filming any type of media in NOLA. Specifically, the 

show will look at research that uses intersectional theoretical 

lenses to queer the quarter. 

5 to 6:30 p.m. / T070 


Communication 

Presidential Panel Session 

Does “Mass Communication” Still Make Sense (or 

Did It Ever Make Sense) 

as an Academic Discipline? 




Panelists 

Silvio Waisbord, George Washington 

Jeff Pooley, Muhlenberg College 

Meredith Clark, Northeastern 

Patricia Moy, Washington 

As AEJMC thinks about its identity, one important question 

worth asking is: what is our discipline? We started 

with a focus on Journalism in 1912, but as the Association 

grew and broadened, Mass Communication was added to 

our name in 1982. It reflected changes over the decades 

in journalism and communication-related programs in 

US colleges and universities. These same programs seem 

to be evolving again and Mass Communication is falling 

out of favor, particularly as subject matter and research 

orientations have been changing. Is there – or can there 

be – a disciplinary focus that unites us in a common intellectual 

pursuit? 

5 to 6:30 p.m. / T071 



Professional Freedom and Responsibility 


Equity and Diversity — Building an Authentic 

School: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and the Future 


David Kurpius, Dean, Missouri School of Journalism 

2021 AEJMC Equity and Diversity Award 

Recipient: 

University of Missouri, School of Journalism 

Panelists 

Earnest L. Perry, Associate Dean of Graduate 

Studies and Research, Missouri School of 

Journalism 

Cristina Mislan, Associate Professor, Missouri 

School of Journalism 

Jill Geisler, Bill Plante Chair in Leadership 

and Media Integrity, University of Loyola-Chicago 

Kevin McDonald, Vice President for Diversity, Equity, 

Inclusion, and Community Partnerships, 

University of Virginia 

The session focuses on coordinated efforts to authentically 

build and sustain diversity, equity and inclusion work 

in journalism and mass communication. The panelists 

will address areas of hiring, culture, training, communities 

and the profession. 

5 to 6:30 p.m. / T072 

Korean American Communication Association 



Gi Woong Yun, Nevada, Reno 

How News Usage and the Perceived Credibility of 

Government News Sources Contributed to Engaging in 

Preventive Behaviors during the COVID-19 Pandemic: 

In the Context of the Protection Motivation Theory* 

Se Jung Kim, Syracuse; 

Seo Yoon Lee, Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 

Heejae Lee, and Shengjie Yao, Syracuse


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A Social Identity Model of Localized Social Media 

Dependency During Earthquake Disaster 

Jinhee Kim, Pohang University of Science 


Yong-Chan Kim, 

and Mihye Seo, Sungkyunkwan University 

Idealized Science vs. Scientific Skepticism in South 

Korea: Micro-level Evidence for the Two-cultures Thesis 

Seihill Kim, Ali Zain 

and Yu-Jin Heo, South Carolina 

Portals as a Gateway to Civic Engagement: The Case of 

South Korea** 

Damhee Kim and Joshua von Herrmann, Arizona 

and Seungahn Nah, Oregon 

Discussants 

Yeonsoo Kim, James Madison 

and Young Eun Park, Colorado State 


** Top Paper 

7 to 8:30 p.m. / T074 



Top Papers in the History Division 


Madeleine Liseblad, California State, Long Beach 

Deadline: A History of Journalists Murdered in America* 

Elizabeth Atwood, Hood 

Acadian Airwaves: A History of Cajun Radio** 

Noah Arceneaux, San Diego State 

Perceptions of Progressive Era Newsgirls: Framing 

of Girl Newsies by Reformers, Newspapers, and the 

Public*** 

Autumn Linford, North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

Cementing Their Heroes: Historical Newspaper 

Coverage of Confederate Monuments**** 

Alexia Little, Georgia 

Thursday 

7 to 8:30 p.m. / T073 



Gender, Diversity, and Equity in Media 

Communication 


Adina Schneeweiss, Oakland 

Leaning In, Pushed Out: Postfeminist Precarity, 

Pandemic Labor, and Journalistic Discourse 

Jessica Maddox, Alabama 

and Brian Creech, Temple 

“The Day Joy Was Over:” Representation of Pregnancy 

Loss in the News 

Zelly Martin, Texas 

A Reckoning in Journalism Education: Examining 

the Approach to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in 

Journalism Syllabi 

Azeta Hatef, Emerson 

and Sara Shaban, Seattle Pacific 

Toward a Framework for Intersectional Listening in 

Strategic Communication 

Katie Place, Quinnipiac 

Discussant 




*** First Place Student Paper, Diversity in Journalism 

History Research Award 

**** Second Place Student Paper 

This session showcases the History Division’s Top Paper 

Award winners. 

7 to 8:30 p.m. / T075 

International Communication, Political Communication 

and Communicating Science, Health, Environment and 

Risk Divisions 



Division 

Topic I — Vaccines I 

05-1900-01 • Promoting COVID-19 Vaccination: The 

Interplay of Message Framing, Psychological 

Uncertainty, and Public Agency 

Yan Huang and Wenlin Liu, Houston 

05-1900-02 • To Vax or Not to Vax: The Impact of 

Issue Interpretation and Trust on Vaccination 

Yi-Hui Christine Huang, Jie Sun 

and Qinxian Cai, City University of Hong Kong

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05-1900-03 • COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: The Effects 

of Direct and Indirect Online Opinion Cues 

on Psychological Reactance toward Health Campaigns 

Fangcao Lu 

and Yanqing Sun, City University of Hong Kong 

05-1900-04 • [EA] How Attribution of Crisis 

Responsibility Affects Covid-19 Vaccination Intent: 

The Mediating Mechanism by Institutional Trust and 

Emotions 

Ji Won Kim, Yi-Hui Christine Huang 

and Qinxian Cai, City University of Hong Kong 

Discussant 

Eunjin Kim, Southern California 

Topic II — Vaccines II 

05-1900-05 • An Online Experiment Evaluating the 

Effects of Social Endorsement Cues, Message Source, 

and Responsibility Attribution on Young Adults’ COVID- 

19 Vaccination Intentions 

Li Chen, West Texas A&M; 

and Chuqing Dong, Michigan State 

and Yafei Zhang, West Texas A&M 

05-1900-06 • COVID-19 Vaccine Intention and Social 

Cognitive Theory: The Role of Individual Responsibility 

and Partisan Media Use 

Porismita Borah, Erica Austin 

and Danielle Ka Lai Lee, Washington State 

05-1900-07 • [EA] Characterizing Discourses about 

COVID-19 Vaccines on Twitter: A Topic Modeling 

and Sentiment Analysis Approach 

Yuan Wang, Maryland at College Park 

05-1900-08 • Exploring Public Perceptions of the 

COVID-19 Vaccine Online: Semantic Network Analysis 

of Two Social Media Platforms from the United States 

and China 

Chen Luo, Tsinghua; Communication U of China 

and Anfan Chen, The Chinese University 

of Hong Kong 

and Wei Dong, Tsinghua; Communication 

University of China 

05-1900-09 • COVID-19 Vaccine Reviews on YouTube: 

What Do They Say? 

Da-young Kang and Eyun-Jung Ki, Alabama 

Discussant 

Kyung Jung Han, California State 

Topic III — COVID-19 Risk Communication 

05-1900-10 • Examining Attenuated Response to 

COVID-19 Risk Through Interaction Effects between 

Increased Communicative Action, Negative Emotion, 

and Perceived Personal Knowledge 

Minhee Choi 

and Nicole O’Donnell, Virginia Commonwealth 

and Won-ki Moon, Texas at Austin 

05-1900-11 • Emotionally Connected: Longitudinal 

Relationships between Fear of COVID-19, Smartphone 

Online Self-disclosure, and Psychological Health 

Joerg Matthes, Kevin Koban, Ariadne Neureiter 

and Anja Stevic, Vienna 

05-1900-12 • Exploratory Research on Health 

Knowledge, Negative Emotions, Risk Perceptions, and 

Intentions to Practice the Preventive Guidance during 


Chia-Ho Ryan Wen 

and Raiana de Carvalho, Syracuse 

05-1900-13 • Systematic Processing of COVID-19 

Information: Relevant Channel Beliefs and Perceived 

Information Gathering Capacity as Moderators 

Janet Yang, Xinxia Dong and Zhuling Liu, Buffalo 

Discussant 

Mildred Perreault, East Tennessee State 

Topic IV — Communicating about Science 

05-1900-14 • An Ecological Approach to Understand 

Scientists’ Commitment to Engage: Push, Pull, 

and Drag Forces 

Niveen AbiGhannam 

and Anthony Dudo, Texas at Austin 

05-1900-15 • [EA] How Self-Disclosure and Gender 

Influence Perceptions of Scientists’ Credibility 

and Likeability on Social Media 

Nahyun Kim, Christofer Skurka 

and Stephanie Madden, Pennsylvania State 

05-1900-16 • [EA] A Triangulated Approach for 

Understanding Scientists’ Perceptions 

of Public Engagement with Science 

Mikhaila Calice, Luye Bao, Becca Beets, 

Dominique Brossard, Dietram A. Scheufele 

and Michael Xenos, Wisconsin at Madison 

05-1900-17 • [EA] Measuring the Brand of Science: 

Implications for Science Communication Research and 

Practice 

Todd Newman 

and Becca Beets, Wisconsin at Madison 

Discussant 

Hollie Smith, Oregon 

Topic V — Health 

05-1900-18 • Narrative and Non-Narrative Strategies in 

Televised Direct-To-Consumer Advertisements 

for Prescription Drugs Aired in the U.S. 

Jiawei Liu, Rosemary Avery, Janice Kim 

and Jeff Niederdeppe, Cornell 

05-1900-19 • [EA] Has COVID-19 Impacted the Risk 

Perceptions and Cessation Intent of Youth Vapers? 

Jungmi Jun, Mary Anne Fitzpatrick, Nanlan Zhang 

and Ali Zain, South Carolina


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05-1900-20 • [EA] Perceptions of HIV Pre-exposure 

Prophylaxis on Twitter: Examining Beliefs 

and Barriers after Approval of Descovy 

Christopher Calabrese 

and Jingwen Zhang, California-Davis 

05-1900-21 • [EA] Trauma-informed Messages in 

Predicting Domestic Violence Attitudes Among 

Battered Women with Childhood Trauma 

Karikarn Chansiri 

and Thipkanok Wongphothiphan, Oregon 

05-1900-22 • [EA] Previvorship: How Individuals With 

Genetic Predispositions For Breast Cancer Present 

Their Experiences Across Social Media Platforms 

Mariah Wellman, Avery Holton 

and Kim Kaphingst, Utah 

Discussant 

Roma Subramanian, Nebraska 

Topic VI — Effects of Framing and Messaging 

05-1900-23 • The Framing Power of Twitter: Examining 

Whether Individual Tweets Are Reframing News 

Media Frames 

Austin Hubner and Graham Dixon, Ohio State 

05-1900-24 • Upping the Ante? The Effects of 

‘Emergency’ and ‘Crisis’ Framing in Climate Change 

News 

Lauren Feldman, Rutgers and P. Sol Hart, Michigan 

05-1900-25 • [EA] Hydropower in the News: How 

Journalists Do (Not) Cover the Environmental 

and Socioeconomic Costs of Dams in Brazil 

Rachel Mourao 

and Gisele Souza Neuls, Michigan State 

and Karina Ninni Ramos, São Paulo 

05-1900-26 • [EA] Corporate Responsibility in the Global 

Village: The Roles of Global Identity, CSR Globality, and 

Construal Level 

Fareeha Wan and Yuhosua Ryoo, Southern Illinois 

and WooJin Kim, Illinois at Urbana Champaign 

Discussant 

Elizabeth Avery Foster, Tennessee 

Topic VII — Misinformation, Disinformation, and 

Conspiracy 

05-1900-27 • When Scientific Literacy Meets 

Nationalism: Exploring Factors that underlie the Chinese 

Public’s Belief in COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories 

Xi Luo and Hepeng Jia, Soochow 

05-1900-28 • Conspiracy vs Debunking: The Role of 

Emotion on Public Engagement with YouTube 

Sang Jung Kim, Kaiping Chen 

and Lynette Gao, Wisconsin 

05-1900-29 • [EA] Using Machine Learning and Social 

Network Analysis to Understand the Motives 

behind the Spread of “Plandemic” Conspiracy Theory 

during COVID-19 

Sushma Kumble, Towson; 

and Jeff Conlin, Pennsylvania State; 

and Pratiti Diddi, Lamar 

05-1900-30 • How Misinformation and Its Rebuttals in 

Online Comments Affect People’s Intention 

to Receive COVID-19 Vaccines: The Role of 

Psychological Reactance and Misperceptions 

Yanqing Sun 


Discussant 

Surin Chung, Ohio 

Topic VIII — Communicating about Risk 

05-1900-31 • Examining COVID-19 Tweet Diffusion 

Using an Integrated Social Amplification and Risk 

and Issue-attention Cycle Framework 

Edmund Lee, Han Zheng, Dion H. L. Goh, 

Chei Sian Lee 

and Yin Leng Theng, Nanyang Technological 

05-1900-32 • Integrating Self-affirmation and EPPM to 

Promote Health Experts’ Misinformation 

Corrective Actions 

Hongjie Tang, Sun Yat-sen 

and Liang Chen, Nanyang Technological 

05-1900-33 • Is Higher Risk Perception Necessarily 

Worse? Source Credibility in Government 

Attributed Media Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic 

Longfei Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong 

05-1900-34 • Amplification of Risk Concerns through 

Social Media and Beyond for Covid-19: 

A Cross-Country Comparison 


and Tang Tang, Kent State 

05-1900-35 • [EA] Risk Perceptions Link to Prevention 

Intentions during Covid-19 Pandemic through 

Affection: A Chinese Three-generation Study 

Yan Zhang, Yao Yao, Guang Yang 

and Naipeng Chao, Shenzhen 

05-1900-36 • [EA] Mapping Risk and Benefit Perceptions 

of Energy Sources: Comparing Public and Expert Mental 

Models 

Shirley Ho, Peihan Yu, Edson Tandoc Jr., 

and Agnes Chuah, Nanyang Technological 

Discussant 

Sifan Xu, Tennessee 

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Topic IX — Theory-driven Examinations 

05-1900-37 • The Impact of Social Media Use 

on Protective Behaviors in Global Epidemics: The 

Mediating Model of Situation Awareness and Crisis 

Emotions 

Yulei Feng and Qingyan Tong, Shanghai Jiao Tong 

05-1900-38 • How Far into the Future: A Meta-Analysis 

of the Effects of Temporal Framing on Risk Perception, 

Attitude, Behavioral Intention, and Behavior 

Guanxiong Huang, City University of Hong Kong 

and Jie Xu, Villanova 

05-1900-39 • [EA] When Do People Wear a Mask in 

Pandemic? An Integration of TPB and EPT 

Surin Chung, Ohio 

and Suman Lee, North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

and Euirang Lee, Ohio 

05-1900-40 • [EA] The Medication Effects of Fear on the 

Relationship between Gain/Loss Message 

Frames and Cognitive/Conative Responses 

Sumin Shin 

and SangHee Park, Wisconsin at Whitewater 

Discussant 

Sining Kong, Texas A&M 


abstract. 


Topic I — When Media Become the Theatre of Battle 

05-1900-41 • What Does the Korean Embassy’s 

Facebook page show us? The Roles and Relationships of 

the Korean Embassy Through a Discourse Analysis of its 

Facebook Page* 

Solyee Kim, Georgia 

05-1900-42 • What’s in a Name? Imagined Territories 

and Sea Names in the South China Sea Conflict** 

Lupita Wijaya, Monash University 

05-1900-43 • A “Regional Halo Effect”? Media Use and 

Evaluations of America’s Relationships 

with Middle East Countries 

Justin Martin, Northwestern in Qatar; 

Mariam Alkazemi, Virginia Commonwealth; 

and Krishna Sharma, Northeastern 

05-1900-44 • How Twitter Becomes the Battlefield for 

China’s Public Diplomacy - A Study on Chinese 

Foreign Ministry Spokesperson’s Twitter Postings with 

Grounded Theory 

Jing Guo, Chinese University of Hong Kong 

Discussant 

Amal Bakry, Louisiana at Lafayette 

* Second Place Paper, Markham Competition 

** Third Place Paper, Markham Competition 

Topic II — The Political Economy and Diplomacy of 

Media 

05-1900-45 • Print as Digital Gateway: Hong Kong’s 

Yellow Economy and Bimodal Communications 

Milan Ismangil, Chinese University of Hong Kong 

05-1900-46 • The Geopolitics Game: A Comparatively 

Frame Analysis between the US and Chinese 

Coverage of “The TikTok Divestiture Event” in the 

Perspective of Media Diplomacy 

Chen Chen, Communication University of China 

05-1900-47 • The Politics of Contextualization in 

Communication Research: Examining the Discursive 

Strategies of Non-US Research in JCR Journals From 

2000 to 2020 

Michael Chan, Jingjing Yi 

Panfeng Hu and Dmitry Kuznetsov, Chinese 

University of Hong Kong 

05-1900-48 • Communicating Nation Branding: Pandas 

as Ambassadors for Wildlife Conservation 

and International Diplomacy 

Dongdong Yang and Carolyn Lin, Connecticut 

Discussant 

Dhiman Chattopadhyay, Shippensburg 

Topic III — The Politics of Representation 

05-1900-49 • Media Genre Dissonance and Ambivalent 

Sexism: How American and Korean Television 

Consumption Shapes Chinese Audiences’ Gender-Role 

Values 

Xiao Zhang, Macau University of Science 


and Chris Chao Su, Boston 

05-1900-50 • From Ritual to Strategy: Li Ziqi as a 

Cultural Icon and the Political Economic Appropriation 

of Micro-Celebrity Fame 

Limin Liang, City University of Hong Kong 

05-1900-51 • [EA] Exploring the Mediating Role of 

Perceived Credibility of Creative Chinese Propaganda 

Media on Political Participation 

Yuanyuan Liu Liu, Yining Liu, 

and Xiaojing Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University 

05-1900-52 • [EA] #desi: Self-Representation on TikTok 

Among the South Asian Diasporic Youth in the U.S. 

Nabila Mushtarin; University of South Alabama 

Discussant 

Vanessa Higgins-Joyce, Texas State 

Topic VI — Culture, Fake News, and New Media 

05-1900-53 • [EA] The Charm of Culture: An Empirical 

Research on Intangible Cultural 

Heritage Short Videos 

Qiaozhi Liang, Yifei Li, 

and Ke Xue, Shanghai Jiao Tong


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05-1900-54 • Trade War, or A War of Fake News?: An 

Exploration of Factors Influencingthe Perceived Realism 

of Falsehood News on International Disputes 

Mingxio Sui, Ferrum College; 

Yunjuan Luo, South China University 

of Technology; and Newly Paul, North Texas 

05-1900-55 • [EA] Digital Natives, Nascent Democracy: 

Tunisian Pre-Professional Journalists’ Uses and 

Perceptions of Social Media 

Carolyn Nielsen, Western Washington; 

Brian J. Bowe, The American in Cairo; 

Western Washington 

and Arwa Kooli, I’Institut de Presse et des Sciences 

de I’Information 

05-1900-56 • To Say or Not to Say: Examining Online 

Self-Censorship of Political Opinions in India 


Discussant 

Kevin Grieves, Whitworth 

Topic VI — When the Practice of Journalism is in 

Question 

05-1900-57 • Boycotting Behavior in Journalism 

Bahtiyar Kurambayev, KIMEP University 

and Karlyga Myssayeva, Al-Farabi Kazakh National 

University 

05-1900-58 • Who is a Less Dangerous Foe? Comparing 

U.S. Media Portrayal of Taliban and ISIS 

Abhijit Mazumdar 

and Zahra Mansoursharifloo, Park University 

05-1900-59 • A Dark Continent? Meta-Analysis of 

Communication Scholarship Focused on African Nations 

Meghan Sobel Cohen, Regis University 

05-1900-60 • Election Interference Strategies Among 

Foreign News Outlets on Social Media During the U.S. 

2020 Election 

Louisa Ha, Bowling Green State 

Discussant 



abstract. 

Political Communication Division 

Topic I – Communication by Political Elites 

05-1900-61 • Gender and Presidential Candidates’ Selfpresentation 

on YouTube Videos 

Dinfin Mulupi and Linda Steiner, Maryland 

05-1900-62 • Vice-presidential Candidates, Language 

Frames and Functions Across Two Continental Divides: 

An Analysis of Acceptance Speeches 

Nana Kwame Osei Fordjour, New Mexico; 

and Godwin Etse Sikanku, Ghana Institute 

of Journalism 

05-1900-63 • Risk Governance during The COVID 

19 Pandemic: A Quantitative Content Analysis of 

Governors’ Narratives on Twitter 

Nagwan Zahry 

and Michael McCluskey, Tennessee - Chattanooga 

05-1900-64 • Tracking Moral Divergence with DDR in 

Presidential Debates Over 60 Years 

Mengyao Xu and Lingshu Hu, Missouri 

05-1900-65 • Communicating the Macedonian Name 

Discourse on the Candidates’ Websites in Northern 

Greece‘s Regional and Municipal Elections of 2019 


Discussant 


Topic II – Political Participation on Social Media 

05-1900-66 • Social Media Engagement Against Fear of 

Restrictions and Surveillance: The Mediating Role 

of Privacy Management 

Macau K. F. Mak, Alex Zhi Xiong Koo, 


05-1900-67 • Examining How Digital Platform Diversity 

Contributes to Social Media News Engagement in China* 

Jing Guo, Chinese University Hong Kong 

05-1900-68 • Creative Self-efficacy, Political Decisionmaking, 

and Offline and Online Political Participation: 

Findings from a Cross-national Survey 

Matthew Kushin, Shepherd University; 

Francis Dalisay, University of Guam; 

Jinhee Kim, Pohang University of Science 

and Technology; 

Amy Forbes, James Cook University; 

Clarissa David, University of the Philippines, Diliman; 

and Lilnabeth Somera, University of Guam 

05-1900-69 • [EA] Users’ Engagement to Online Forum 

in Social Crisis 

Danielle Ka Lai Lee 

and Mina Park, Washington State; 

Tsz Wa Yip, University of Gothenburg; 

and Kyu-Min Lee, Worcester Polytechnic 

05-1900-70 • [EA] Differential Outcomes of Political 

Meme Exposure and Engagement: 

A Path Towards Political Trust and Participation 

Milos Moskovljevic 

and Muhammad Masood, City University 

of Hong Kong 

Discussant 

Gina Masullo, Texas at Austin 

Thursday

98 



Topic III – Audience Perceptions of News 

05-1900-71 • Perceptions of Media Bias in Reporting 

on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: On the Influence of 

Antisemitic Attitudes in Seven Non-Partisan Countries 

Philip Baugut, Munich; 

and Sebastian Scherr, Texas A&M 

05-1900-72 • Do Twitter Comments Influence 

Credibility Perceptions of News Posts? Exploring MAIN 

Model 

John Kelsey, Alabama 

05-1900-73 • [EA] Fox News, Political Comedy, 

and (Motivated?) Reasoning in Beliefs about Global 

Warming: Evidence from a large-scale Panel Survey 

Patrick Meirick, Oklahoma 

05-1900-75 • Macedonian Name Dispute: Contentious 

Securitization and the Perceived Role of Media 

and Journalists in Greece 


Discussant 

Robin Blom, Ball State 

Topic IV – Election News 

05-1900-76 • The 2016 Presidential Election Coverage: 

Use of Twitter as a Source and the Media Framing of the 

Race 

Porismita Borah, Washington State; 

and Rico Neumann, Washington 

05-1900-77 • Due and undue impartiality. How 

Context Policed BBC Reporting during the UK and US 

Elections 

Ceri Hughes, Marina Morani, Stephen Cushion, 

and Maria Kyriakidou, Cardiff University 

05-1900-78 • [EA] Victimhood, Morality, and Identity 

Politics in Social Media: Understanding Affective 

Polarization During the US Election 

Amanda Trigiani and Megan Boler, Toronto 

05-1900-79 • The Anxiety Factor: Moral Traditionalism, 

Interpersonal Contact Diversity and Support for 

Transgender Candidates and Rights 

Xiaoxia Cao 

and Atinc Gurcay, Wisconsin - Milwaukee 

05-1900-80 • [EA] Iran and the U.S. Elections: Building 

an Agenda of Anxiety and Concern 

Osama Albishri and Wyne Wanta, Florida; 

Ghada Alwaily, University of Leicester; 

and Ahmed Alqarni, Virginia Commonwealth 

Discussant 

Mark Harmon, Tennessee 

Topic V – Misinformation and Covid-19 

05-1900-81 • Behavioral Effects of Partisan URLs sharing 

on Social Media Users: How Partisan 

Coverage of Vaccines receives differential 

Networked Sharing and Interaction on Facebook 

Shreenita Ghosh, Wisconsin - Madison; 

and Porismita Borah, Washington State 

05-1900-82 • Strategic Issue Management and COVID- 

19: Analysis of Twitter from 50 Governors 

Michael McCluskey 

and Nagwan Zahry, Tennessee - Chattanooga 

05-1900-83 • Which Way Do I Go? Need for 

Orientation, Media Use, and Knowledge 

about COVID-19 

Taeyoung Lee and Tom Johnson, Texas at Austin; 

and David H. Weaver, Indiana 

05-1900-84 • To Share or Not to Share? Political Actors 

and the Spread of Political Misinformation on Twitter 

Shola Aromona, Kansas 

05-1900-85 • [EA] Examining the Effects of Social 

Media Fact-checking and Political Knowledge on False 

Beliefs 

Juan Liu, Bruce Getz, Lydia Ray, 

and Florence Wakoko-Studstill, Columbus State 

Discussant 

Iona Coman, Texas Tech 

Topic VI — Protests, Scandals, and Conflict 

05-1900-86 • Citizen Videos vs. Legacy Media Visual 

Reports: The Coverage of the 2019 Iranian Oil Protests 

Afrooz M and Douglas Porpora, Drexel 

05-1900-87 • [EA] Understanding What Influence the 

Public Opinion Towards Politicians’ Scandals in Taiwan: 

A Survey Study on Two Scandals 

Yujia Cheng, Hong Kong Baptist 

05-1900-88 • The Conditional Indirect Effects 

of Traditional and Social Media News Use on 

Political Participation in Hong Kong: Examining the 

Communication Mediation Model 

Yan Su, Washington State 

05-1900-89 • Asking the Enemy of My Enemy for 

Help: Transnational Grassroots Outreach on Twitter in 

#HongKongProtests 

Cheryl Shea, Wisconsin - Madison; 

Yanru Jiang, UCLA; 

and Wendy L.Y. Leung, Chinese University 

Hong Kong 

05-1900-90 • All’s (Un)fair in Trade and War: Linguistic 

Framing Effects in News about U.S.-China Tariffs 

Jo Lukito, Texas at Austin 

Discussant 

Lindsay McClusky, SUNY Oswego


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Topic VII – Political Attitudes 

05-1900-91 • Pathways to Political Persuasion: Linking 

Online, Social Media, and Fake News with Political 

Attitude Change Through Political Discussion 

Homero Gil de Zúñiga, University of Salamanca/ 


Pablo González-González, University of Salamanca 

Manuel Goyanes, Carlos III University 

05-1900-92 • In a Hurry, Bored, Angry at Professors: 

How Punitive Populism Infiltrates Media Education 

Mike McDevitt, Colorado 

05-1900-93 • How Fans Become Nationalists in China? 

Effects of Idol Adoration and Online Fan Community 

Engagement 

Xining Liao 

and Alex Zhi Xiong Koo, Wisconsin - Madison 

05-1900-94 • When Exposure to Fake News and Factchecking 

Promote Fake News Sharing: The Moderating 

Role of Partisan Strength and Need to Evaluate 

Hsuan-Ting Chen 

and Ivy Fong, Chinese University of Hong Kong 

Discussant 

Oluseyi Adegbola, DePaul 

* Fourth Place Student Paper 


abstract. 

Break in number sequence indicates that an accepted 

submission has been formally withdrawn. 

7 to 8:30 p.m. / T076 



Best of MCSD 


Xi Cui, College of Charleston 

The Mediated Classroom: A Grounded Theory Analysis 

of Live Streaming Media Affordance and Teaching 

Context Remodeling from The Perspective of Actor- 

Network-Theory**** 

Yefu Qian, Chen Li, 

and Ruimin He, Shanghai Jiaotong University 

Cancel Culture and Its Underlying Motivations in 

Singapore***** 

Beverly Tan, Gabrielle Lee, Rachel Angeline Chua 

and Charlyn Ng, Nanyang Technological 

Discussant 

Mike Schmierbach, Pennsylvania State 

* First Place, Open Competition Paper 

** Second Place, Open Competition Paper 

*** Third Place, Open Competition Paper 

**** First Place, Student Competition Paper 

***** Second Place, Student Competition Paper 

7 to 8:30 p.m. / T077 

Media Management, Economics, and Entrepreneurship 

Division 


Newsrooms of the Future 


Mohammad Yousuf, New Mexico 

Digital News Business Models in the Age of Industry 

4.0* 

Mathias Felipe de-Lima-Santos, Navarra 

and Lucia Mesquita, Dublin City University 

Transboundary Cultural Economy: Spatial and Market 

Configurations of Cascadia’s News 

Derek Moscato, Western Washington 

Nothing Routine: Television News Management’s 

Response to COVID-19, Organizational 

Uncertainty, and Changes in News Work. 

Asma Khanom and Peter Gade, Oklahoma 

Thursday 

Informational, Infrastructural and Emotional Labor: The 

Extra Work in a News and Broadband Desert* 


and Christopher Ali, Virginia 

Jessica Jones: Exploring Marvel’s Dark Anti-Hero and the 

Portrayal of Complex Women Characters** 

Newly Paul and Gwendelyn Nisbett, North Texas 

Fake News in the Family: How Family Communication 

Patterns and Conflict History Affect the Intent to Correct 

Misinformation among Family Members*** 

Franklin Waddell 

and Chelsea Moss, Florida 

Discussant 


* Third Place Student Paper

100 



7 to 8:30 p.m. / T078 



High Density Research Session: Teaching 

Papers and GIFTS 


Pam Bourland-Davis, Georgia Southern 

Teaching Papers 

Teaching Philanthropy: How can Public Relations Courses 

Prepare Future Fundraisers and Motivate Giving?* 

Virginia Harrison, Clemson 

Leveling the Playing Field: Assessing Issues of Equity, 

Transparency, and Experiential Learning in the PRSSA 

Bateman Case Study Competition 

Amanda Weed, Kennesaw State; 

Adrienne Wallace, Grand Valley State; 

Betsy Emmons, Samford 

and Alisa Agozzino, Ohio Northern 

Dynamic Capabilities and Social Media Education: 

Professional Expectations and Curricular Preparation 

KiYong Kim, Biola 


Pamela Brubaker, Brigham Young 

GIFTs 

Pitch Perfect: Seeds of Media Relations** 

Adrienne Wallace, Grand Valley State; 

Jamie Ward, Eastern Michigan; 

and Regina Luttrell, Syracuse 

A Human-Centered SEO Approach to Creating Higher 

Ranking Content for Public Relations Using a Content 

Clustering Method 

Adrienne Wallace, Grand Valley State 

and Regina Luttrell, Syracuse 

Building Portfolios, Connections, and Confidence: How 

Professors Can Leverage Student Writing Collections to 

Support Students’ Employment Opportunities 

Jennifer Konfrst, Eric Adae, 

and Kelly Bruhn, Drake 

Multicultural Learning Experience: An Active Learning 

Assignment to Increase Cultural Competence in PR 

Students 

Renea Nichols, Pennsylvania State 

Teaching Audience Analysis Through Worksheets: 

Approaching Audience Analysis as Qualitative Research 

Julia Hathaway, Katherine Rowan, 

Elizabeth Duesterhoeft, Nicole Leavey, 

Karen Akerlof, and Suzanne Mims, Stony Brook 

* Denotes First Place Teaching Competition Paper 

** Denotes First Place GIFT 

7 to 8:30 p.m. / T079 



Top Paper Session: State of Advanced 

Visual Communication Research 



Revealing the Veil in Internet Memes and GIFs: A 

Comparative Framing and Stereotyping Analysis* 

Omneya Ibrahim, Texas at Austin, 

and Shahira Fahmy, American University in Cairo 

Frames and Journalistic Roles in Chinese Reporting on 

HIV: Insights from a Content Analysis and Qualitative 

Interviews Focused on the Verbal and Visual 

Modalities** 

Chunbo Ren, Central Michigan 

and Viorela Dan, LMU Munich 

Constructing Love: Visual Representation of Blackness 

in the Obama Marriage*** 


Discussant 


* First Place Top Paper 

** Second Place Top Paper 

*** Third Place Top Paper 

Student top paper will be recognized with top paper winners 

during this top paper session. But she will present her 

paper in the other session. 

7 to 8:30 p.m. / T080 



Community Journalism Top Papers 



Locating the Media’s Role in Empathy for Immigration* 

Kelly Kaufhold, Texas State 

Collaborative Coverage: A Content Analysis of Articles 

by Local Journalists Working to Solve Homelessness and 

Engage Community** 

Laura Moorhead, San Francisco State 

Must I Follow the Script? Professional Objectivity, 

Journalistic Roles and the Black Community Journalist*** 

William Singleton and Wilson Lowrey, Alabama


101 


Print Imprint: The Connection Between the Physical 

Newspaper and Self**** 


Discussant 

Hans Meyer, Ohio 

* Top Paper 

** Second Place Paper 

*** Third Place Paper 

**** Top Student Paper 

7 to 8:30 p.m. / T081 



What You Watching? Examining Representation 

and Viewing Patterns on Television Shows 


Kelsey Whipple, Massachusetts-Amherst 

Am I Bbinge-watching or Just Glued to the Couch? 

Viewing Patterns, Audience Activity, and Psychological 

Antecedents for Different Types of Extended-time 

Television Viewing 


and Lindsey Maxwell, Southern Mississippi 

A Little Bit Alexis: From Self-Absorbed Socialite to Self- 

Made Career Woman 

Stefanie East, Troy 

Keeping Up with the Yummy Mummies? Examining 

Kim Kardashian’s Mediated Yummy Mummy Images on 

the Reality Television Program Keeping Up with The 

Kardashians versus Instagram posts 

Suri Pourmodheji, Indiana, Bloomington 

Spotlighting Emotional Intelligence in Children’s Media: 

Emotional Portrayals in Disney Channel Television 

Series 

Patrick Osei-Hwere, Enyonam Osei-Hwere, 

and Li Chen, West Texas A&M 

It’s Nothing Like Cancer: Young Adults with Cancer 

Reflect on Memorable Entertainment Media 

Meredith Collins, Allison Lazard, Ashley Hedrick, 

and Tushar Varma, North Carolina Chapel Hill 

Discussant 


The papers in this session will explore binge-watching, 

media portrayals of women and children and the role of 

entertainment media in promoting resiliency. 

7 to 8:30 p.m. / T082 


Group 


Top Paper Session 


Chelsea Reynolds, California State, Fullerton 

Stigmatized Groups with Infectious Diseases: 

Korean LGBTQ+s’ Intersectional Stigma and Risk 

Communication during COVID-19 Outbreaks* 

Hyoyeun June, Salve Regina 

and Victoria Ledford, Maryland College Park 

Investigating the Content of #U = U on Twitter 

Joseph Schwartz, Northeastern 

and Josh Grimm, Louisiana State 

Snake in the Grass: Adapting Sex and Sexuality from 

Journalistic Truth to the Silver Screen** 


Discussant 

Tien T. Lee, Macau 



Session will feature Top Faculty and Top Student paper 

award winners as determined by the interest group. 

7 to 8:30 p.m. / T083 



Constructing Journalism with Audiences: 

Challenges and Opportunities 

in Participatory Journalism 


Antoine Haywood, Pennsylvania 

I Did My Best to Show Their Pain: Participatory Genres 

of Photojournalistic Witnessing 

Kenzie Burchell 

and Stephanie Fielding, Toronto Scarborough 

“I Think We Are Truly Ignored” – An Assessment of 

How Small Town Media Serves the Information Needs 

of BIPOC Residents 

Letrell Crittenden, Thomas Jefferson 

and Andrea Wenzel, Temple 

Thursday

102 



“When You’re Out Here On Your Own”: Journalists, 

Harassment and News Organization Responses 

Avery Holton, Utah; 

Valérie Bélair-Gagnon, Minnesota; 

Diana Bossio, Swinburne University, 

and Logan Molyneux, Temple 

Discussant 


7 to 8:30 p.m. / T084 

Sports Communications Interest Group 


Disruption and Evolution: Sports Journalism 

in Pandemic Times 


Erin Whiteside, Tennessee-Knoxville 

Making Soufflé with Metal: Effects of the Coronavirus 

Pandemic on Sports Journalism Routines 

Carolina Velloso, Maryland, College Park 

Covering Sports, When There’s No Sports: COVID, 

Market Orientation, Paywalls and The Athletic* 

Patrick Ferrucci, Colorado-Boulder 

[EA] Crowd Pleasers: Exploring Motivations and 

Measuring Success Among Independent Sports 

Podcasters 

Matthew Taylor, Middle Tennessee State 

[EA] Who’s Got Game? A Survey of College-Level Sports 

Media Programs and Classes 

Kevin Hull, South Carolina; John Carvalho, 

and Blake Waddell, Auburn 

Discussant 

Erin Whiteside, Tennessee-Knoxville 



abstract. 

7 to 8:30 p.m. / T085 

Korean American Communication Association 

Executive Committee / Business Meeting 

KACA Business Meeting and Webinar 

7:00 to 7:30 p.m. 

KACA/AEJMC Business Meeting 

7:30 to 8:30 p.m. 

Webinar — Big Data Analytics and Media AI for 

Data-Driven Journalism Studies 

Presenter 

Daemin Park, Sun Moon University 

This webinar will discuss the possibility of data-driven 

journalism studies to describe journalistic practices based 

on news big data analytics and media AI. Some cases 

such as BigKinds(natural language analysis system of text 

news) and KDX-AI(a large-scale dataset of broadcast videos) 

in South Korea will be introduced. 

8:45 to 10:15 p.m. / T086 


Divisional Members’ Meeting/Social 


Ken Fischer, Oklahoma 

• Edward L. Bliss Award for Distinguished Broadcast 

Journalism Education 

• Larry Burkum Service Award 

Nancy Dupont, Mississippi 

8:45 to 10:15 p.m. / T087 


Divisional Members’ Meeting 



8:45 to 10:15 p.m. / T088 




Masahiro Yamamoto, Albany 


Hanna Park, Sun Moon University


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8:45 to 10:15 p.m. / T089 


Interest Group Members’ Meeting 



8:45 to 10:15 p.m. / T091 




Magda Konieczna, Concordia 

8:45 to 10:15 p.m. / T090 


8:45 to 10:15 p.m. / T092 




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9 to 10:30 a.m. / F001 



Journalism and Public Relations: Practices 

and Ethics 

[EA] Covering COVID-19 in the Global South: Digital 

News Values in the Ugandan Journalism Field 

Ruth Moon, Tyron Boukouvidis 

and Fanny Ramirez, Louisiana State 

Discussant 

Serajul Bhuyian, Savannah State 


Lisa Burns, Quinnipiac 

[EA] Targeting the Trades, Press Associations, and 

J-schools: Tobacco Industry Mapping and Shaping of 

Metajournalistic Discourses* 

Michael Buozis, Muhlenberg College 

[EA] A Socially Responsible Trade: An Analysis of 

Ethical Discourse in Editor & Publisher, 1930-1934 

James Fuller, Wisconsin-Madison 

The Effect of Early Journalism Codes and Press Criticism 

on the Professionalization of Public Relations 

Thomas Bivins, Oregon 

Discussant 

Raymond McCaffrey, Arkansas 

* Top Extended Abstract Award 


abstract. 

This session will explore issues of journalism and public 

relations practices and ethics in historical contexts. 

9 to 10:30 a.m. / F002 



Reexamining and Reevaluating Media Coverage 

about Global South 


Shahira S. Fahmy, American in Cairo 

Topic I — Perception, Performance, and Values about 

Journalism 

Journalistic Role Perceptions and Barriers to Role 

Fulfilment in Post-communist Bulgaria: A Preliminary 

Assessment 

Mladen Petkov, American University 

[EA] Assessing the Role Performance of Solutions 

Journalism in a Global Pandemic 

You Li, Eastern Michigan 

Topic II — Understanding the Psychology of News 

The Influence of Personality on Motivations: Comparing 

Uses and Gratifications of Social Media Users in the US 

and Kuwait 


Mariam Alkazemi, Virginia Commonwealth 

Faten Alamri, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman 

University 

and Cathy Zimmer, North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

[EA] American Stereotypes of Chinese: Traits, Values 

and Media Use 

John Beatty, La Salle 

Media Coverage of Trade War Between China and 

United States by Russian Media Outlets 

Viktor Tuzov, City University of Hong Kong 

Discussant 

Lindita Camaj, Houston 

Topic III — Media Representation and Public Opinion 

[EA] The Use of Sources in News Stories about 2020 

American Elections on Croatian Television: Who 

Dominates the Narrative? 

Ivanka Pjesivac, Georgia; Iveta Iimre, Mississippi 

and Ana Petrov, Toronto 

Key Players in International Opinions on the U.S.-China 

Trade War 

Weiwen Yu, Arizona State 

[EA] Imagining Behind the Wall: Representation of Israel 

on Chinese Online Video Platform Bilibili 

Xin Xin, Hong Kong Baptist 

Discussant 

Shugofa Dastgeer, Texas Christian 


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Friday

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9 to 10:30 a.m. / F003 


and Electronic News Divisions 


Problems or Possibilities? Pedagogical Approaches 

to Teaching Skills Courses Online in a Pandemic 


Lee Hood, Loyola-Chicago 

Panelists 

Neal Bennett, Rutgers 

Dean Cummings, Georgia Southern 

Steve Hayes, Georgia State 

Shaina Holmes, Syracuse 

Julian Rodriguez, Texas-Arlington 

Angeline J. Taylor, Arizona State 

9 to 10:30 a.m. / F004 



Changing Dynamics Between Individuals, Publics, 

and Media Organizations 


Liz Bent, Missouri 

Autonomy in Local Digital Journalism: A Mixed-Method 

Triangulation Exploration of the Organizational Culture 

and Individual Moral Psychology Factors of Digital 

News Workers* 

Rhema Zlaten, Colorado Mesa 

A Need for Change: The Perceived Power of Media and 

Journalists in Greece 


Converging Theory with Practice in the Media Skills 

Classroom** 

Alexis Romero Walker, North Carolina 


Always Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide: Analyzing 

Moral Conviction, Perceived Motives, and Organization- 

Public Relationships in Corporate Social Advocacy 

Efforts 

Holly Overton, Pennsylvania State 

and Anli Xiao, South Carolina 

Discussant 

Florence Chee, Loyola Chicago 

* Davis Ethics Award 


9 to 10:30 a.m. / F005 


and Magazine Media Divisions 


Audience is King: Audiences and Analytics 

in Class Practice 



Panelists 

Aileen Gallagher, Syracuse 

Elizabeth Hendrickson, Ohio 


Sara Shipley Hiles, Missouri 

Scott Hums, Digital Content Director, WTHR-TV 

Station, Indianapolis 


The teaching area of Audience Analytics has undertaken 

continuous updating as more and more media organizations 

are demonstrating that analytics can tangibly 

improve institutional effectiveness in strategic areas, like 

audience engagement, content popularity, user sentiment, 

and advertising campaigns. This panel is focused on how 

audience/digital/data analytics is practiced in classroom 

among different disciplines, such as journalism, public 

relations, communication studies, and telecommunications. 

Specifically, this panel seeks multiple perspectives 

from academic scholars and industry experts, including 

how to link the practice of analytics/digital analytics 

tools to the course learning objectives, and what possible 

learning outcomes can be achieved through audience/ 

digital analytics class implementation. 

9 to 10:30 a.m. / F006 



Minorities in the Academy: Progress, Limitations 

and Calls for Change 



Fifty Years Researching and Raising Awareness About 

Minorities and Communication: The Story of MAC’s 

Scholarship 


and Lillie Fears, Arkansas State


111 


[EA] First-generation Students’ College Experiences: The 

Role of Familial and Mentorship Support 

Victoria Orrego Dunleavy, Ekaterina Malova 

and Diane Millette, Miami 

Journalism and Mass Communications Resources and 

Open Access Perceptions at Historically Black Colleges 

and Universities 

Jerry Crawford, Joseph Erba, 

Amalia Monroe-Gulick, and Pamela Peters, Kansas 

The Language of Diversity in ACEJMC Site-visit Reports: 

Some Inclusion but with a Lack of Equity and Belonging 

Robin Blom, Gabriel B. Tait, Curtis Matthews, 

and Elena Lazoff, Ball State 

[EA] Selena: A Latinx Cultural Anchor for Pop Culture 

Pedagogy 


Discussant 

Bradley Gorham, Syracuse 


abstract. 

The newly renamed Champions of Editing is honored 

to welcome Nana aba Duncan, the inaugural Carty 

Chair in Journalism, Diversity and Inclusion Studies at 

Carleton University’s School of Journalism, for a discussion 

of diversity, equity and inclusion across journalism 

and mass communication curriculum. Duncan will 

provide tips for individual educators and briefly address 

systemic change. An award-winning broadcaster and 

advocate of underrepresented perspectives in journalism, 

Duncan previously worked as a host and producer at 

CBC Radio. The recipients of the Champions of Editing’s 

teaching and research competitions, who will receive 

cash prizes provided by our sponsors, (Dow Jones News 

Fund, ACES: The Society for Editing, Poynter), will also 

be recognized. Questions? Please email Kirstie Hettinga 

at khetting@callutheran.edu. 

9 to 10:30 a.m. / F008 




#Campaigning While Female: Presentation 

Strategies and Media Representations 

in the 2020 Presidential Campaign 

9 to 10:30 a.m. / F007 


and Scholastic Journalism Divisions 


Champions of Editing Teaching and Research 

Competitions 


Kathy R. Fitzpatrick, South Florida 

Panelists 


Jane Hall, American 

Vanessa Williams, The Washington Post, 

Washington DC 

Friday 


Kirstie Hettinga, California Lutheran 


Nana aba Duncan, Carleton University 

Revealing the Veil in Internet Memes and GIFs: A 

Comparative Framing and Stereotyping Analysis* 

Omneya Ibrahim, Texas at Austin 

and Shahira Fahmy, American in Cairo 

Be a New York Times Digital Headline Editor** 

Melanie Faizer, Tennessee-Knoxville 

Breaking-News Drill** 

Joe Grimm, Louisiana State 

and Mary Lou Song, affiliation 

* First Place Research Competition 

** First Place Teaching Competition (Tied) 

9 to 10:30 a.m. / F009 

Graduate Student Interest 

and Visual Communication Division 


Research Identity Crisis? How to Communicate 

Your Research Identity 


Brian Delaney, Auburn 

Panelists 

Brian Eckdale, Iowa 

Rachel Young, Iowa 

Ayleen Cabas-Mijares, Marquette 

Kyser Lough, Georgia 

Colin Piacentine, South Carolina

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9 to 10:30 a.m. / F010 


Group and Public Relations Division 



Topic I — Public Relations in the time of COVID- 

19: Crisis Communication and Organizational-Public 

Relationships 

06-0900-01 • [EA] Public Perceptions of Using the 

Wireless Emergency Alert System for COVID-19: 

Lessons for State Government Crisis Communication 

Stephanie Madden, Nicholas Eng, 


06-0900-02 • Exploring the Mediating Effect of 

Government–Public Relationships during the COVID-19 

Pandemic: A Model Comparison Approach 

Yuan Wang, Yi-Hui Christine Huang, 

and Qinxian Cai, City University of Hong Kong 

06-0900-03 • Social Listening using Machine Learning 

to Understand Sense Making and Content Dissemination 

on Twitter: A Case Study of WHO’s Social Listening 

Strategy During COVID-19 Initial Phase 

Sushma Kumble, Towson; 

Pratiti Diddi, Lamar; 

and Maggie Whitescarver, Towson 

06-0900-04 • How China used Twitter to Repair Its 

Image amid the COVID-19 Crisis 

Ayman Alhammad, Kansas 

Discussant 

Yan Jin, Georgia 

Topic II — Corporate Social Advocacy, Effects, and 

Strategies 

06-0900-05 • Matching Words with Actions: 

Understanding the Effects of CSA Stance-action 

Consistency on Negative Consumer Responses 

Ziyuan Zhou, Bentley 

and Chuqing Dong, Michigan State 

06-0900-06 • The Influence of Issue Attitude on 

Consumers’ Reaction toward Corporate Social 

Advocacy: A Moderated Mediation Path through 

Cognitive Dissonance 

Xueying Zhang, North Carolina A&T State 

and Ziyuan Zhou, Bentley 

06-0900-07 • Examining Value Congruence and 

Outcome-relevant Involvement as Antecedents 

of Corporate Political Advocacy 

Leping You, Linda Hon, 

and Yu-Hao Lee, Florida 

06-0900-08 • [EA] Toward an Audience-Centric 

Framework of Situational Corporate Social Advocacy 

Strategy: A Pilot Study 

Ioana Coman, Texas Tech; 

Jiun-Yi Tsai, Northern Arizona; 

and Shupei Yuan, Northern Illinois 

Discussant 

Melissa Dodd, Central Florida 

Topic III — Organizational Efforts to Communicate 

Corporate Social Advocacy and Corporate Social 

Responsibility 

06-0900-09 • What Do You Mean by Doing the Right 

Thing?: Examining Corporate Social Advocacy 

Frames and Transparency Efforts in Fortune 500 

Companies’ Website 

Hyunmin Lee and Emma Whitehouse, Drexel 

06-0900-10 • How Nike and Gillette Survived the 

Tension between Corporate Social Advocacy 

and Boycotting Backlash 

Juan Liu and Bruce Getz, Columbus State 

06-0900-11 • Global Companies’ Use of Social Media 

for CSR Communication During COVID-19 

Sun Young Lee, Duli Shi, John Leach, 

and Saymin Lee, Maryland 

and Cody Buntain, New Jersey Institute 

of Technology 

06-0900-12 • Implications of SME ethics statements 

and CSR communication: Evidence from Korean SMEs’ 

Websites 

Soo-Yeon Kim, Seung Chan Lee, 

and Hye-Sun Lee, Sogang University 

Discussant 

Moonhee Cho, Tennessee 

Topic IV — Social Media: Social Mediated Crisis, 

Opinion Leadership, and Twitter Use 

06-0900-13 • Revisiting SMCC Model: How Chinese 

Public Relations Practitioners Handle 

Social Mediated Crisis 

Sining Kong, Texas A&M at Corpus Christi 

and Huan Chen, Florida 

06-0900-14 • Exploring Online Opinion Leadership: 

An Analysis of the Influential Users on Twitter During 

the Online Conversation Around Anthem Protests by 

Prominent Athletes 

Brandon Boatwright, Clemson 

06-0900-15 • A Comparison of Twitter Use by Different 

Sector Organizations 

Taisik Hwang, Suffolk 

06-0900-16 • The Networked Huawei Agendas during 

the US-China Trade War: The Interrelationships 

between Huawei, the News Media, and Public Tweets 

Zahedur Arman, Southern Illinois Carbondale


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Discussant 

Emily Kinsky, West Texas A&M 

Topic V — Public Interest Communication, Community 

Building, and Organizational Listening 

06-0900-17 • Serving Public Interests and Enacting 

Organizational Values: An Examination of Public 

Interest Relations through AARP’s Tele-Town Halls 

Lindsey Anderson, Maryland 

06-0900-18 • The Role of Community and Social 

Capital in Community Building 

Brooke Witherow, Hood College 

06-0900-19 • Extending Civic Values in Architectures of 

Listening: Arendt, Mouffe and the Pluralistic Imperative 

for Organizational Listening 

Luke Capizzo 

and Meredith Feinman, James Madison 

06-0900-20 • How has the United Nations portrayed 

International Women’s Day Before and After Founding 

UN Women? 

Michelle Rossi, Colorado at Boulder 

Discussant 

Denise Bortree, Pennsylvania State 

Topic VI — Government Communication and Country 

Reputation Management in the Social Media Age 

06-0900-21 • Examining Publics’ Comparative 

Evaluations of Government Communication 

and Strength Ties as Predictors of Country Reputation 

Yoosun Ham, Ejae Lee, Eugene Kim, 

and Sung Hyun Lee, Indiana 

06-0900-22 • Twitter Styles by the Leaders of the 116th 

US House: A Concurrent Triangulation 

Nana Kwame Osei Fordjour, University 

of New Mexico; 

and Timothy Kwakye Karikari, University 

of International Business and Economic, 

Beijing, China 

06-0900-23 • [EA] Public Communication in the Age of 

Fake News 

Edson Tandoc Jr., Pei Wen Wong, 

Chen Lou, Hyunjin Kang, 

and Shruti Malviya, Nanyang Technological 

Discussant 

Spiro Kiousis, Florida 

Topic VII — Internal Communication: Navigating 

Change, Internal Activism, and Enterprise Social Media 

06-0900-24 • Navigating Change in the Era of COVID- 

19: The Role of Top Leaders’ Charismatic Rhetoric and 

Employees’ Organizational Identification 

April Yue, Connecticut 

06-0900-25 • [EA] Feeling Elevated: Examine the 

Mediation Role of Elevation in CEO Activism on 

Employee Prosocial Engagement 

Grace Ji, Boston 

and Cheng Hong, California State, Sacramento 

06-0900-26 • Understanding the implementation of 

Enterprise Social Media on Employee Communication: 

An Affordance Perspective 

Song Ao and Xiao Qian, Macau 

06-0900-27 • Internal Activism at Amazon: Rhetorical 

Strategies and the Public Relations Response 

Margaret Ritsch 

and Erin Tomson, Washington State 

Discussant 

Chuck Lubbers, South Dakota 

Topic VIII — Cultivating Relationships with Employees 

and Donors: Internal CSR, Dialogic Communication, 

and Identification 

06-0900-28 • Unpack the Relational and Behavioral 

Outcomes of Internal CSR: Highlighting Dialogic 

Communication and Managerial Facilitation 

Baobao Song, Virginia Commonwealth 

and Weiting Tao, Miami University 

06-0900-29 • From CSR to Employees’ Megaphoning 

Behavior: The Roles of Communal Relationship 

and Corporate Reputation 

Enzhu Dong and Dongqing Xu, Miami 

06-0900-30 • Influence of Identification, Relationship, 

and Involvement of a Donor on Attitudes towards and 

Behavioral intentions to Online Donation via SNS 

Eunyoung Kim, Auburn at Montgomery 

and Sung Eun Park, Webster 

Discussant 

Ken Plowman, Brigham Young 


abstract. 

9 to 10:30 a.m. / F011 


and Communication Technology Division 


eSport: From the Real World to the Classroom 


Mary Lou Sheffer, Southern Mississippi 

Friday

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• Developing community-based 

mechanisms to combat inherent 

algorithmic bias 

• Perceptions of AI applications in 

strategic communication 

• How individuals respond to social 

robots’ vocal cues and gestures 

• Efficacy of virtual healthcare 

assistants to promote colorectal 

cancer screening 


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the forces diminishing our trust in news, 

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other. We want to arm people with the 

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Panelists 

Mary Lou Sheffer, Southern Mississippi 

Ted Kian, Oklahoma State 

Ryan Rogers, Butler 

John Shrader, Nebraska - Lincoln 

Panelist will discuss how to create curriculum in this 

area, eSports marketing-especially with professional sport 

leagues creating eSports leagues for marketing purposes, 

technological needs that come along with an eSports 

program, and the connection between Student Affairs and 

Academics. Rational for the Panel: eSports has exploded 

in recent years. In fact, it is currently the second most 

watched sport in the U.S. (1st is the NFL). Universities 

have begun creating competitive eSports teams across 

the country. Currently there are 140+ school members 

with over 3,000 student athletes and over $16million in 

scholarships. The growth of the NACE (collegiate eSports 

Governing Body) has led to increased promotion and 

interest. Sports media programs have begun to incorporate 

eSports into the curriculum. The area is ripe for 

research and job opportunities for students. The Bay area 

is a high concentration area for eSports, so the setting is 

perfect. 

9 to 10:30 a.m. / F012 



Development 


Mid-Career: Opportunities and Challenges 



Panelists 


Federico Subervi, Wisconsin-Madison 


This panel facilitates information, networking and discussion 

around professional challenges and opportunities 

facing mid-career faculty. Participants interact with senior 

faculty in discussions about how to navigate the transition 

to senior scholars. 

9 to 10:30 a.m. / F013 

Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and 

Mass Communications (ACEJMC) 


Annual ACEJMC Workshop 


Patricia Thompson, executive director, ACEJMC 

11 to 12:30 p.m. / F014 


Communication 


AEJMC General Session 



2020-21 AEJMC President 

AEJMC Awards 

Hillier Krieghbaum Under-40 Award Recipient 


Dorothy Bowles Public Service Award Recipient 

Sharon Bramlett-Solomon, Arizona State 

Baskette Mosse Award Recipient 


AEJMC Equity & Diversity Award Presentation 

2021 Recipient 

University of Missouri, School of Journalism 

Award accepted by David Kurpius, Dean 

Research Committee Awards 

Eleanor Blum Distinguished Service to Research Award 

Recipient: Louisa Ha, Bowling Green State 

Paul J. Deutschmann Award for Excellence in JMC 

Research Recipient 

Glen T. Cameron, Missouri 

Nafziger-White-Salwen Dissertation Award Recipient 

Pressing the Police and Policing the Press: The History 

and Law of the Relationship between the News Media 

and Law Enforcement in the United States 

Scott Memmel, Minnesota 

Other Awards 

Lionel C. Barrow, Jr. Award for Distinguished 

Achievement in Diversity Research and Education 

Recipient 

Earnest L. Perry, Missouri


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2021 News Audience Research Paper Award Winner 

2021 Gene Burd Award for Excellence in Urban 

Journalism Recipient 

Gabrielle Gurley, deputy editor, 

The American Prospect 

2021 Gene Burd Award for Research in Journalism 

Studies Recipient 


Installation of 2021-22 AEJMC President 


1 to 2:30 p.m. / F015 


Communication 



Topic — Influencer Marketing 

07-1300-01 • [EA] Demystify Computer Generated 

Influencers: The Role of Perceived Anthropomorphism 

and Social Presence on Audience’s Attitudes toward 

CGI’s Sponsored Posts and the Endorsed Brands 

Regina Ahn, Su Yeon Cho, 

and Sunny Tsai, University of Miami 

07-1300-02 • Investigating the Marketing Effectiveness 

of Virtual Influencers 

Siu Ting Josie Kiew, ZhaoXi Phua, 

Jia En Celine Ong, Tze Yen Michelle Lee, 

and Chen Lou, Nanyang Technology 

07-1300-03 • [EA] Virtual or Real?: A Comparative 

Study on Virtual-influencer- vs. Celebrity-endorsed 

CSR Message 

Jeongwon Yang, Ploypin Chuenterawong, 

and Heejae Lee, Syracuse 

07-1300-04 • A Literature Review of Influencer 

Marketing and Research Agenda: From a Social 

Network Analysis Perspective 


and Quan Xie, Southern Methodist 

07-1300-05 • Kidfluencing: The Role of Selling Intent, 

Logo Presence, and Disclosure Modality on Parental 

Appraisals 

Jason Freeman, Brigham Young 

and Frank Dardis, Pennsylvania State 

Discussant 

Heidi Hatfield Edwards, Florida International 


abstract. 


Topic I — Social Media in Health Communication 

07-1300-06 • “It Will Help Build Immunity”: 

Preventative Remedies, Herbal Cures, and Role 

of Uncertainty Reduction of Health Issues in WhatsApp 

Shaheen Kanthawala and Jessica Maddox, Alabama 

07-1300-07 • [EA] COVID-19 Risk Perceptions among 

College Students: Social Media for Self 

and Mass Media for Others 

Inyoung Shin, Wisconsin-Milwaukee 

and Hyunsook Youn, California State- 

Channel Islands 

07-1300-08 • Your Virtue is My Vice: Analyzing Moral 

Foundations in Pro-Vaping and Anti-Vaping Facebook 

Communities 

Yunwen Wang 

and Yusi Aveva Xu, Southern California; 

Jiaxi Wu, Boston University; 

Hye Min Kim, Southern California; 

Traci J. Hong, Boston University 

and Margaret L. McLaughlin, Southern California 

07-1300-09 • [EA] A Study on the Health Information 

Sharing Behavior of the Chinese Elderly Adults on 

WeChat 

Lingbo Gan and Peng Xu, South China University 

of Technology 

Discussant 

Mugur Geana, Kansas 

Topic II—Online Information Processing 

07-1300-10 • What Do 5G Networks, Bill Gates, 

Agenda 21, and QAnon Have in Common? Sources, 

Engagement, and Characteristics 

Itai Himelboim, Georgia; 

Porismita Borah 

and Danielle Ka Lai Lee, Washington State; 

Janice Lee, Georgia; Yan Su, Washington State; 

Anastasia Vishnevskaya 

and Xizhu Xiao, Washington State 

07-1300-11 • The Effect of Perceived Media Influence: 

Factors Affect Corrective Actions on Social Media 

Liefu Jiang, Chicago State 

07-1300-12 • Uncivil versus Intolerant: Examining 

Incivility on Social Media Discussions 

Mustafa Oz, Tennessee, Knoxville 

07-1300-13 • Do You Know What They Are Doing 

with Your Data? Digital Literacy and Perceived 

Understanding of Institutional Surveillance 

Jessica Wyers and Ayla Oden, Louisiana State 

Discussant 


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Topic III — News and Emerging Media 

07-1300-14 • 360VR and Journalism: Investigating 

Cognitive and Persuasive Effects of Virtual Reality 

Community News Narratives 

Aaron Atkins, Weber State 

07-1300-15 • [EA] Media Trust and Comment Argument 

Strength’s Effects on Journalist Credibility 


and Manu Bhandari, Arkansas State 

07-1300-16 • Measuring News Verification Behavior: A 

Scale Development and Cross-cultural Validation Study 

Wenting Yu, City University of Hong Kong 

Discussant 

Ever Figueroa, Kansas 

Topic IV — Social Media and Strategic Communication 

07-1300-17 • The Status of Social Media Related Public 

Relations Research: A Systematic Review of Articles 

Published in 14 Journals from 2006 to 2018 

Yuan Wang, City University of Hong Kong 

and Yang Cheng, North Carolina State 

07-1300-18 • [EA] Resharing Brands on Social Media: 

Posts and Reposts from Peers, Influencers, and Brands 

Judith Rosenbaum, Maine; 

Benjamin Johnson, and Jonathan Hinds, Florida 

07-1300-19 • “When Thousands and Thousands Are 

Asking for It, It’s Hard to Put It Off”: Wattpad.com’s 

Technological Affordances and Teens’ Experiences 

Writing Erotic One Direction Fanfiction 

Ashley Hedrick, North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

Discussant 

Joseph Erba, Kansas 


abstract. 


Topic I — News Media Portrayals and Minorities 

07-1300-20 • When Beauty Meets Racism: A 

Comparative Content Analysis of #Foxeye Beauty 

and Asian Activism Videos on TikTok, 

Grace Choi, Columbia College Chicago 

07-1300-21 • Barbaric Arabs: Hollywood Portrayals, A 

Content Analysis 

Farah Harb, Wayne State 

07-1300-22 • “I Can’t be Neutral or Centrist in a 

Debate Over My Own Humanity”: Are Traditional 

News Norms Universal? 

Magda Konieczna and Ellen Santa Maria, Temple 

Discussant 

Candi Carter Carlson, Utah State 

Topic II — Race/Ethnicity and Communicating Online 

07-1300-23 • [EA] Race/Ethnicity, Online Information & 

COVID-19 Vaccination: Study of Minority 

Immigrants’ Internet Use for Health-related Information 

Annalise Baines, Hyunjin Seo, 

Muhammad Ittefaq, Ursula Kamanga, 

Fatemeh Shayesteh, and Yuchen Liu, Kansas 

07-1300-24 • [EA] Black Death Virality: Exploring 

Motivations of Sharing Black Death Online 


and Britney Gilmore, Texas Christian 

Discussant 

Kim Fox, The American University in Cairo 


abstract. 


07-1300-25 • Building Sustainable Client Partnerships: 

a Non-Profit Outreach Center’s Value to Developing a 

Service-Learning Pedagogy* 

Chris McCollough, Jacksonville State 

07-1300-26 • Methods for Teaching Social Justice 

Journalism** 

Dawn Francis, Cabrini 

Discussants 

Dave Madsen, Morningside 

and Carrie Buchanan, John Carroll 

* First Place Paper, Small Programs Interest Group 

** Second Place Paper, Small Programs Interest Group 


07-1300-27 • Flipping the Frame: Rudy Gobert’s 

Journey from Episodic Bad Actor to Thematic Hero 

Mark Mederson, Loras College 

and Michael Mirer, Wisconsin - Milwaukee 

07-1300-28 • eSports as a News Specialty Gold Rush: 

Communication Ecology in the Domination 

of Traditional Journalism Over Lifestyle Journalism 


and Mildred Perreault, East Tennessee State 

07-1300-29 • (Un)fair Pay to Play: Alienation, 

Exploitation, Labor Power and the NCAA 

Vincent Peña, Texas at Austin 

07-1300-30 • [EA] “Where do I even begin?”: The 

Harassment of Female Local Sports Broadcasters 

Miles Romney, Brigham Young; 

Kevin Hull, Kirstin Pellizzaro, 

and Denetra Walker, South Carolina


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07-1300-31 • [EA] Narratives and Frames of Firsts in 

Women’s Sports: A Content Analysis of Newspaper 

Coverage of Sarah Fuller and Power Five Football 

Introduction 

Kim Bissell and Bummsoo Park, Alabama 

Discussants 

Jennifer L. Harker, West Virginia 

and Betsy Emmons, Samford 


abstract. 

1 to 2:30 p.m. / F016 

Communication Technology and Media Management, 

Economics and Entrepreneurship Divisions 


Media in the Age of Automation, Robotics and 

Artificial Intelligence 


Soo Young Bae, Massachusetts Amherst 

Panelists 

Jaime Banks, Texas Tech 



Andrea L. Guzman, Northern Illinois 

Mindy McAdams, Florida 

Alexandra Merceron, Columbia 

Panelists explore the impact of automation, robotics and 

AI on the media, including processes of news reporting 

and media production as well as consumption. 

1 to 2:30 p.m. / F018 



In Quest for Responsible Journalism: Covering 

Pandemic and Health 


Jatin Srivastava, Ohio 

Examining the Media Coverage of Early COVID19 

Responses in the Online Version of Bangladeshi 

Newspapers 

Sima Bhowmik 

and Muhammad Fahad Humayun, Colorado-Boulder 

[EA] It’s a Small World After All -- How Covid-19 False 

Information Travels Across Borders and Morphs During 

the Pandemic 

Wei-Ping Li, Maryland 

[EA] In “Other” News: A Media Framing Analysis of 

COVID-19 Emergence in Croatia 

Gea Ujčić, Maryland 

Responsibility Framing of Health Issues in Ghanaian 

Newspapers: A Comparative Study of Ebola and Cholera 

Augustine Botwe, Colorado-Boulder 

and Selorm Adogla, National Film and Television 

Institute, Ghana 

[EA] How Does Ethical Ideology Affect Behavioral 

Intention to Wear a Mask in Pandemic? 

Surin Chung, Ohio; 

Eunjin Kim, Southern California; 

Suman Lee, North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

and Euirang Lee, Ohio 

Discussant 

Lea Hellmueller, Houston 

Friday 

1 to 2:30 p.m. / F017 

Media Ethics and Electronic News Divisions 


Dealing with Bad Political Actors: Implications 

for Ethics, Law and Policy 


Bill Davie, Louisiana 

Panelists 

Ed Wasserman, California Berkeley 

Lee Wilkins, Missouri 

Maniko Barthelemy, Louisiana 

Robert Mann, Louisiana State 


abstract. 

1 to 2:30 p.m. / F019 

Law and Policy 

and Cultural and Critical Studies Divisions 


Twitter Mobs and Out of Jobs: Squaring 

Cancel Culture and the Marketplace of Ideas 


Meredith Clark, Virginia

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Panelists 

Jessica Maddox, Alabama 

Guy Harrison, Tennessee 

Amy Gajda, Tulane Law School 

Jared Schroeder, Southern Methodist 

Cancel culture has been implicated as a threat to freedom 

of expression. Critics often contend that more speech, 

rather than less, is best for democratic society. The marketplace 

of ideas, the Supreme Court’s dominant tool for 

rationalizing protections for widespread safeguards for 

expression – even hateful, indecent, personally damaging, 

or otherwise unpopular speech – has led to wideranging 

speech protections. This panel will bring First 

Amendment and critical and cultural scholars together 

in a roundtable format to discuss the conflict between 

the cancel culture phenomenon and the marketplace of 

ideas. 

1 to 2:30 p.m. / F020 


Awards Panel Session 

MAC Honors Award Ceremony 


Melody Fisher, Mississippi State 

Presentation of Barrow Award winner and additional 

awardees. This is a pre-recorded session. 

1 to 2:30 p.m. / F021 



Polarization and Partisanship 


Jo Lukito, Texas at Austin 

The Politics of Behaving Badly: How Ingroup-Outgroup 

Conditions Affect Individuals’ Perceived Credibility and 

Partisan Ambivalence* 

Jian Shi, Adriana Mucedola, 

and Kandice Green, Syracuse; 

and Tong Lin, Maryland 

An Examination of Social Media Use and Campaign 

Participation from Cross-Cutting Communication and 

Social Identity Perspectives 

Masahiro Yamamoto, Albany 

and Jay Hmielowski, Florida 

[EA] The Contagion of Political Incivility in Response to 

Donald Trump’s Election Campaign Videos on YouTube 

Yingying Chen, South Carolina 

[EA] Polarization, Emotion and Race in Social Media: 

Innovative Methodologies and Challenges of Affective 

Discourse Analysis 

Megan Boler, Toronto 

Perceiving Affective Polarization: How Media-Induced 

Meta-Perceptions Drive Affective Polarization 

Christian Staal Bruun Overgaard, Texas at Austin 

“Strong Enough to Battle the Liberals”: How Social 

Identity Solidified White Evangelical Christian Women’s 

Support of Donald J. Trump and Sustained their Distrust 

of News Outlets 

Gayle Jansen Brisbane, California State-Fullerton 

Anti-Muslimism in a Partisan Hybrid Media 

Environment: Examining the Relationships Between 

Media Exposure, Biased Views, Social Trust, and 

Acceptance of Muslims 

Yu Tian and Lars Willnat, Syracuse 

Wealth Mindset and Political Division 

Mark Harmon, Tennessee 

[EA] The Self-Censoring Majority 

Devin Knighton, Christopher Wilson, 

and Alycia Burnett, Brigham Young 

[EA] Effects of Hong Kong Local Identity on the Intention 

to Use Health Code during COVID-19 

Xin Jin 

and Zimeng An, City University of Hong Kong 

and Yanru Jiang, California, Los Angeles 



abstract. 

1 to 3:30 p.m. / F022 


Communication 

Research Roundtable Session 

Catching Up with the Scholars: Progress Reports 

from 2020 Senior and Emerging Scholars 

and 2021 Senior and Emerging Scholars 

Session 1: 1:00 p.m. – 2:10 p.m. 

Reports from 2020 Senior and Emerging Scholars 


Daniela Dimitrova, Iowa State


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2020 Senior Scholar Projects: 

Discourses of Journalism Database 

Amanda Hinnant, Ryan J. Thomas, 

and Yong Volz, Missouri 

Misinformation and News Literacy in Kenya 

Melissa Tully, Iowa 

1 to 2:30 p.m. / F023 

Association for Education and Journalism and 

Mass Communication Elected Standing Committee 

on Research, Public Relations and Minorities and 

Communication Divisions 

2020 Emerging Scholar Projects: 

Examining E-Cigarette Users’ Psychological, Affective, 

Attitudinal, and Behavioral Responses to Freedom- 

Threatening Anti-Vaping Public Service Announcements 

Russell Clayton, Florida State 

Verbal-Visual Mismatch: The Disclosure Section of 

Televised Direct-to-Consumer Advertising 

and Its Effects on Consumers 

Viorela Dan, Ludwig-Maximilian University 

of Muich, 

and Stephanie Van Stee, Missouri-St. Louis 

Examining the Role of Community Communication 

Resources and Disaster Storytelling in Building 

Community Resilience 

Wenlin Liu, Houston 

2:10 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. (Break) 

Session 2: 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. 

Reports from 2021 Senior and Emerging Scholars 


Kim Bissell, Alabama 

2021 Senior Scholar Projects: 

Ira B. Harkey, Jr., and the Pascagoula Chronicle: A 

Forgotten Crusader for Racial Justice in Mississippi 

David R. Davies, Southern Mississippi 

Algorithmic Audience in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: 

Tailored Communication, 

Information Cocoons, and News Literacy 

Roselyn Du, California State, Fullerton 

2021 Emerging Scholar Projects: 

Correcting Vaccine-Related Misbeliefs through Vicarious 

Self-Persuasion: Effects of Storytelling and Refutation 

Yan Huang, Houston 

A Change in Media Diet as a Result of Corporate 

Surveillance. A Comparison between the United States 

and Europe 

Joanna Strycharz, Amsterdam, 

and Claire M. Segijn, Minnesota 

Research Panel Theory Colloquium Session 

Transcending the Silos: Building on Critical 

Race Theory’s Essential and Timely Foundation 


Damion Waymer, Alabama 

Panelists 

PR and the Racial Reckoning 

Nneka Logan, Virginia Tech 

We are undergoing a period of racial reckoning in the 

U.S. that has global relevance. Hundreds of years after 

face-based slavery, decades after the Civil Rights movement 

and a few years after the election of President 

Obama was alleged to have ushered in a post-racial era, 

White supremacist groups and ideology have gained 

frightening new traction. At the same time, resistance 

against racism seems more multicultural, multigenerational, 

international, and diverse than ever. How are 

communication scholars to make sense of this? How 

are we to intervene and to what ends? To engage these 

questions and propel theorization focused on how communication 

can respond to, and lead through, this period 

of racial reckoning, this presentation draws upon CRT. 

While CRT has received important attention in communication, 

particularly in public relations, it remains 

infrequently and inadequately addressed. This presentation 

situates CRT as a pathway for future theorization of 

communication committed to racial justice. 

Critically Considering Race and Queer Theorizing 

Erica Ciszek, Texas at Austin 

The seeds of critical analysis for both CRT and queer theory 

have been planted within communication studies and 

public relations. Often, however, CRT research doesn’t 

consider sexual and gender minorities, while queer 

theory has historically not attended to racial and ethnic 

minorities, leaving under examined the voices and experiences 

of those most marginalized. This presentation 

focuses on the history of queer theory and its exclusion of 

communities of color and the lack of theorizing the lives 

of queer people of color. The presentation will address 

how the intersections of sexuality, gender, and race have 

historically been excluded from public relations and it 

will consider advancing queer theories that attend to the 

racialized nature of power and inequality. This contribution 

will challenge our field and sub-disciplines to look 

at things differently. 

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CRT’s Role in the Sullivan Principles’ Global Message to 

Corporations 


When an African American minister from Philadelphia 

and the United Nations Secretary General put their heads 

together in the 1970s, their corporate conduct demands 

in the form of The Sullivan Principles were undergirded 

by CRT and set the course for abolishing apartheid in 

South Africa. It is essential that communication scholars 

and practitioners consider the enduring inequities that 

shape lived experiences of BIPOC peoples globally. CRT 

has helped communication professions to work toward 

more inclusive and diverse workplaces that should play 

out across organizations and media to benefit society. I 

blend CRT with postcolonialism to critique ways that all 

excluded populations are the backs upon which the privileges 

of White people have been built and maintained – 

with the complicity of global corporations. 

Governmental Resistance to Critical Race Theory (CRT) 

and Legislative Pressures on Universities 

Rulon Wood, Boise State 

Faculty members are in an excellent position to advocate 

for diversity, equity, and inclusion. However, public 

institutions of higher education, especially those located 

in politically conservative states, often face hostile audiences, 

as recently occurred at Boise State University. On 

July 9, 2019, an Idaho legislator drafted a letter to the 

Boise State University President, Marlene Tromp. The letter, 

co-signed by 28 House Republicans, stated that many 

of BSU’s DEI programs ran counter to what they termed 

“The Idaho Way.” Specifically, legislators requested 

that the university discontinue minority scholarships, a 

newly created administrative position to support students 

of color, multicultural events, the rainbow graduation, 

Black graduation, and Project Dream. Some legislators 

even threatened to suspend funding because they felt that 

Critical Race Theory had become embedded in all university 

courses. As faculty members, we need to analyze 

these concerns and respond to them in ways that resonate 

with members of the community in which we work. To 

this end, the author of this paper will consider how CRT 

is understood among hostile audiences by applying pertinent 

rhetorical theories and offering suggestions on how 

to address concerns. 

Discussant 

Jennifer Vardeman, Houston 

CRT is a leading theory in raising awareness about racial 

difference and problematic factors like whiteness. In 

public relations, CRT illuminated the lack of scholarship 

about racioethnicity, both from the perspectives of practitioners’ 

experiences and publics’ representation. 

1 to 2:30 p.m. / F024 


Communication 

Panel Session 

ASJMC Survey Releases 




Panelists 

R. Glenn Cummins, director, Center for 

Communication Research, Texas Tech 

Melissa Gotlieb, Center for Communication 

Research, Texas Tech 

Bryan Mclaughlin, Center for Communication 

Research, Texas Tech 

The team from Texas Tech University’s Center for 

Communication Research will present the results of the 

2020-2021 ASJMC Faculty Survey. 

1 to 2:30 p.m. / F025 

South Asia Communication Association (SACA) 


Turning the Page: Media Research on South Asia 

and Its Diaspora Worldwide II 


Jatin Srivastava, Ohio, 

Delwar Hossain, South Alabama; 

Neelam Sharma, Idaho State-Pocatello, 

and Deb Aikat, North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

Session I — Women Empowerment and Gendered 

Communication in India 

Digital Dispossession and Gendered Discrimination in 

Use of Smartphone by Women in Margenal Settings in 

India 

Namita Nagpal, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha 

University, India 

and Gita Bamezai, Freelance Communication and 

Media Researcher, India 

Empowering the Adolescent Girls in Rural India Through 

Digital Technology 

Sneh Gupta, 

and Kulveen Trehan, Guru Gobind Singh 

Indraprastha University, India


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The Changing Gender Roles in the Marketing 

Communication Landscape and Its Influence on 

Millennial Purchase Intentions 

Agnijita Mukherjee 

and Madhupa Bakshi, Heritage Academy-Kolkata, 

India 

Discussant 

Rianka Roy, Connecticut 

Session II — Representation of Culture in South Asian 

Cinema 

Cinema, Culture and City: A Study of Bangalore’s 

Representation in Kannada Cinema Sri Sudhan R, 

LeadSquared, India 

Naresh Rao, Christ University, India 

Transmedia Imagination of Contemporary Hindi Cinema 

Ipsita Barat, St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, India 

Representation of Women in Documentary Films 

Related to Transitional Justice in Post War Sri Lanka 

Madhubhashini Rathnayaka Mudiyanselage, 

(former student), University of Sussex, England 

Discussant 

Eman Bente Syed, Film Producer, Pakistan 

Session III — Framing Conflict and War in the Media 

Role of Media & Communication in Conflict Struck 

Zones of South Asia: Is Objectivity Sufficient? 

Sumaira Yasin, Monash University, Australia 

and Diwakar Shukla, Jagran Lakecity University, 

India 

Looking at How News Discourses on Indo-Pak Relations 

Post 26/11 are Framed and Which Prominent Themes 

are Constructed 

Monisha Qadiri, Islamic University of Science & 

Technology, Kashmir, India 

Political Election in India- Battle on Digital Space: A 

Critical Analysis 

Jhumur Datta Gupta, Sister Nivedita University, 

India 

Discussant 


Session IV — Covering Health and COVID-19 in Media 

Digitizing Public Health Communication: Comparative 

Study of Twitter Handles of WHO and Ministry of 

Health, Government of India 

Rajesh Das 

and Ipsita Banerjee, University of Burdwan, India 

Coping with Covid 19 Challenges: Evidence from 

Newspaper Industry in India 

Madhupa Bakshi 

and Subhrajeet Ganguly, Heritage Academy, India 

and Soumya Sarkar, Indian Institute of Management 

Ranchi, India 

Evaluating Five Governments’ Social Media Strategy 

During COVID-19 Usha Rodrigues, Deakin University, 

Australia 

Padma Rani, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, 

India 

and Andrew Goh, Deakin University, Australia 

Desi Diasporic Cultural Entrepreneurs: Producing the 

Self Through Narratives of Trauma and Healing Online 

Mallika Khanna, Indiana-Bloomington 

Discussant 

Pavica Sheldon, Alabama in Huntsville 

Session V — Governance and Media 

State Interest in Content Governance on Platforms in 

India 

Simran Agarwal, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, 

France 

Foregrounding Space and Context: A Discursive Study 

of Fact-Checking in India 

Sakshi Bhalla 

and Rik Ray, Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 

Al Jazeera’s All the Prime Minister’s Men: How a Hybrid 

Regime Deals with Investigative Journalism 

Shafiqur Rahman, California State, San Bernardino; 

Fahmidul Haq, Notre Dame; 

and Zahedur Arman, Southern Illinois Carbondale 

Discussant 

Serajul Bhuyian, Savannah State 

Session VI — Framing Social Movements and War in 

Media 

Deplatforming Hindu-nationalism: The Rise of 

Alternative Social Media in India 

Prashanth Bhat, Eastern Connecticut State 

The New York Times Coverage of the Bangladesh War 

of Independence in 1971 in the Backdrop 

of the Cold-war Cahooting 

Zainul Abedin, Mississippi Valley State 

and Shafiqur Rahman, South Carolina State 

When is Medium not the Message? Context Specific 

Role of Twitter in the Digital Politics of Protests 

Movements in India and the USA 

Paarmita Jhalani, Karishma Sinha, 

Aasim Khan, 

and Payel Mukherjee, Indraprastha Institute of 

Information Technology-Delhi, India 

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Discussant 

Imran Hasnat, Oklahoma 

In our commitment to the 2021 AEJMC conference theme 

“Turning the Page,” the South Asia Communication 

Association (SACA) will host an interactive paper session. 

Research papers were selected in a peer-reviewed 

competition. SACA was constituted in 2015 at the AEJMC 

conference in San Francisco. Instituted as an umbrella 

organization with a presence in key organizations, SACA 

currently constitutes 2,086 members worldwide. If you 

have questions, email SACA curator, Deb Aikat , North Carolina, Chapel Hill. No pre-registration 

required. All are welcome. 

1 to 2:30 p.m. / F026 

University of Kentucky 


Teaching for Results: Raising the Profile 

of Your Student Media 


Erika Engstrom, Kentucky 

Panelists 

The Kentucky Kernel: A Tradition of Student 

Excellence 

Ryan Craig, Student Publications Advisor, 

Kentucky 

Substance + Style: KRNL Lifestyle + Fashion 

Magazine 

May May Barton, Design Advisor, Kentucky 

Student Photography Showcase: Award-Winning 

Images 

David Stephenson, Kentucky 

Strategy, Feedback, Deadlines and Lab Rats: 

Helping Students Succeed on a National Stage 

Adrian Grumbein, Kentucky 

Teaching Hands-On Multimedia Skills over Zoom 


Who Says You Can’t “Profit” Working with 

a Not-for-Profit? 

Kimberly A. Parker, Kentucky 

What makes student media unique, outstanding, and 

award winning? This session provides effective ways 

of enhancing student experience while also providing 

students with work-ready skills and recognition for their 

work at the university level. 

1 to 2:30 p.m. / F027 

International Association for Literary Journalism Studies 

(IALJS) 


Activist Narrative Journalism: Aesthetics 

and Politics of Alternative Media, II 


David O. Dowling, Iowa 

Panelists 

Literary Journalism for Social Justice: Examining the 

Activism of Wang Fang and Behrouz Boochani 

Willa McDonald, Macquarie 

Engaging Activist Energy in the Literary/Longform 

Journalism Classroom 

Lisa A. Phillips, SUNY New Paltz 

Literary Digital Journalism as Activism: 

Opportunities and Challenges 

Alba Sabaté Gauxachs, Blanquerna School 

of Communication 

and International Relations 

“We’re Past Kneeling”: Black Twitter and NBA 

Activism During the 2019-2020 Season Restart 

Aja Witt, Iowa 

With the rise of alternative media and independent coverage 

of politics and protest movements comes a new wave 

of storytelling methods and technologies. This panel 

offers a reassessment of journalism and/as activism from 

print to the digital age. 

3 to 4:30 p.m. / F028 


Division 


Communicating Science, Health, Environment 

and Risk Information in Digital Spaces 


Kristin Timm, Alaska Fairbanks 

Topic I - Substance Use 

“BFF: Beer Friends Forever” Close Friends’ Role in 

Adolescents’ Sharing of Alcohol References on Social 

Media* 

Robyn Vanherle, KU Leuven


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Differential Effects of Mass Media and Social Media on 

Health Prevention for E-cigarettes Among Young Adults 

Sang-Hwa Oh, Seo Yoon Lee, WooJin Kim, 

Un Chae Chung 

and Chang-Dae Ham, Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 

[EA] Understanding the Nature of Communication in a 

Smartphone-based Peer Support Group for Alcohol Use 

Disorder 

Tae-Joon Moon, Texas Health Science Center 

at San Antonio 

and Dhavan Shah 

and David Gustafson, Wisconsin at Madison 

Discussant 

Yan Huang, Houston 

[EA] Beyond Individualized Responsibility Attributions? 

How Eco Influencers Communicate Sustainability on 

TikTok 

Brigitte Huber, Vienna 

and Robert Lepenies, Helmholtz Center for 

Environmental Research - UFZ 

and Luis Quesada, Vienna 

Discussant 

Sharon Dunwoody, Wisconsin 

* Second Place Top Student Paper 


abstract. 

Topic II - Health 

Magnifying the Infodemic: Identifying Opinion Leaders 

in Networks of Misinformation about COVID-19 on 

Twitter 

Jiemin Looi, Texas at Austin 

Self-Disclosure as a Coping: How Self-Disclosure 

Influences Mental Health in Chinese Online Depression 

Groups 

Mulin Jiang 

and Ji Won Kim, City University of Hong Kong 

Fighting Misinformation on Social Media: The Roles of 

Evidence Type and Presentation Mode 

Celine Yunya Song, Hong Kong Baptist; 

and Sai Wang, City University of Hong Kong; 

and Jiawei Liu, Cornell; 

and Qian Xu, Elon 

Discussant 

Jiun-Yi Tsai, Northern Arizona 

Topic III - Environment and Science 

Embedded Contexts and Multilayered Interactions: User 

Comments and Interactions 

Analysis on YouTube Related to Climate Change 

Sifan Xu, Anna Kochigina 

and Shelby Luttman, Tennessee 

The Differential Effects of Science Humor on Three 

Scientific Issues: Global Warming, Artificial Intelligence, 

and Microbiomes 

Sara Yeo, Utah 

and Leona Yi-Fan Su, Illinois 

and Michael Cacciatore, Georgia 

and Meaghan McKasy, Utah Valley 

How Group Identity Polarizes Public Deliberation on 

Controversial Science 

Kaiping Chen, Yepeng Jin 

and Anqi Shao, Wisconsin 

3 to 4:30 p.m. / F029 



Local and Global Challenges in the 

Media Environment 




Hyperlocal Affective Polarization: Remixing Rural 

Understanding* 

Ava Francesca Battocchio, Michigan State 

Toward a Theory of Solutions Journalism and 

Explanation of its Effects** 

Kathryn A. Thier, Maryland 

The Pervasive Presence of Chinese Government Content 

on Douyin Trending Videos 

Yingdan Lu and Jennifer Pan, Stanford 

[EA] (Mis)information & Motivation: Building a 

Motivational Interactivity Model for Tackling Online 

Misinformation 

Saraswathi Bellur, Connecticut 

and Porismita Borah, Washington State 

Discussant 

Jennifer Hoewe, Purdue 


** Third Place Student Paper 


abstract. 

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3 to 4:30 p.m. / F030 




Carrying OUR Weight: Teaching about Sexual 

Assault and Harassment in Reporting, 

Advertising, and Mass Communication Courses 


Jacqueline Lambiase, Texas Christian 

Panelists 




Madlin Mekelburg, Austin American-Statesman 

As part of representation industries, journalism and advertising 

professionals create and perpetuate cultural norms, 

language, and imagery concerning sexual assault and 

sexual harassment. These two industries also have been 

identified by feminists allied with the #MeToo movement 

as playing a significant role in the construction of rape 

culture. While rape culture affects all women, its violence 

is experienced by Black women and other women 

of color in disproportionally harsher ways, according to 

the National Organization for Women (2018). Prior to 

the rise of #MeToo, the #CarryThatWeight public performance 

project at Columbia University helped to raise 

awareness on college campuses about sexual assault 

and harassment. This project was created by a Columbia 

undergraduate who strapped her dorm room mattress to 

her back and walked around the campus to communicate 

to onlookers the burden she had to carry as a sexual 

assault victim at the university. This discussion will pull 

these two movements into one space to ask and respond 

to these questions: How have our journalism and advertising 

academic spaces expanded to include discussions 

and teaching about these important issues with students? 

What should journalism and advertising instructors be 

teaching students about responsible media portrayal and 

responsible reporting on sexual assault, as a result of 

these movements’ collective impact? This session seeks 

to provide new ways to address power in professional 

spaces—physical and psychological—and to incorporate 

lessons from these important movements into education 

for students learning about sexual harassment and sexual 

assault. In addition, the panelists will address how we 

teach students to protect themselves inside newsrooms 

and within industries like advertising that do not have 

good track records for protecting workers from sexual 

assault and harassment. 

3 to 4:30 p.m. / F031 

Electronic News and Political Communication Divisions 


The Sinclair Effect: Issues of Media Ownership 

and Framing of Protests in Local Television News 


Kylah J. Hedding, Iowa 

Panelists 

Charisse Gibson, anchor, WWL-TV, 

New Orleans, LA 


Travis L. Dixon, Illinois 

Johanna Dunaway, Texas A&M 

Philip Napoli, Duke 

3 to 4:30 p.m. / F032 




When Gas Masks and Body Armor Are in the 

Journalists’ Toolkit: Training Future Journalists 

to Responsibly, Legally, and Safely Cover Protests 

and Racial Injustice 



Panelists 

Candace Perkins Bowen, Kent State 

Erin Coyle, Temple 

Lindsie Rank, program officer, Foundation 

for Individual Rights in 

Education Individual Rights 

Defense Program 

Sohana Nasrin, Maryland 

Bobbie Foster Bhusari, Maryland 

3 to 4:30 p.m. / F033 



Past, Present and Future: The Magazine as a 

Reflection of Societal Shifts 


Gigi McNamara, Toledo


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Fifty Years of Black Enterprise Magazine Covers: A 

Visual Analysis of Black Business 

Gabriel B. Tait, Ball State; 


and Dorothy Bland, North Texas 

Gender, the New Journalism, and the Early Careers of 

Gloria Steinem and Gail Sheehy 

Lisa Phillips, SUNY New Paltz 

The Practice and Presentation of Slow Journalism: 

A Case Study of Kinfolk Magazine* 

Lydia Cheng, University of Sydney 

Discussant 

Elizabeth Hendrickson, Ohio 


3 to 4:30 p.m. / F034 

Media Managements, Economics and Entrepreneurship 

and Advertising Divisions 

3 to 4:30 p.m. / F035 


and Commission on the Status of Minorities 


MAC’s Golden Anniversary- Trailblazers, 

Troublemakers and Traditions 



Panelists 

Melody Fisher, Mississippi State 

Denetra Walker, South Carolina 

Mas Biswas, Loyola 

Jannette Dates, Howard (Emeritus) 

3 to 4:30 p.m. / F036 

Public Relations and Media Ethics Divisions 


Media Sales Fundamentals and Skills 

in a Cross-Platform Environment 


Todd A. Holmes, California State, Northridge 


Why Should Communication Practitioners Care 

About Moral Psychology and Ethics of Care? 


Rachel Stark, Memphis 

Friday 

Panelists 

Lillian Pena, Walt Disney Television 

Ron Rodrigues, San Francisco State 

Megan Cox, Texas at Arlington 

Cheryl Grimley, Crown Media Networks 

Bryan Ruiz, Google, and University of Florida 

Todd Holmes, California State, Northridge 

A niche which is critical to the success of media firms 

and is sometimes overlooked in media programs is media 

sales. Media enterprises rely on teams of well-trained 

and knowledgeable salespeople to generate revenue for 

their companies whether this is in the form of traditional 

advertising, such as the selling of commercial time within 

programs, or via digital advertising vehicles, including 

online video or placement on social media platforms. In 

addition to advertising, brand integration initiatives have 

become more prominent as networks and studios aim 

to acquire revenue in ways that are less intrusive such 

as product placement. This PF&R panel session brings 

media educators and sales professionals together to discuss 

best practices for teaching media sales fundamentals 

and skills in a cross-platform and increasingly fragmented 

media environment. 

Panelists 

David Craig, Oklahoma 

Melanie Formentin, Towson 

Julia Daisy Fraustino, West Virginia 

Joe Jones, West Virginia 

Sora Kim Chinese, Hong Kong 

Marlene Neill, Baylor 

Patrick Plaisance, Pennsylvania State 

Erin Schauster, Colorado, Boulder 

Weiting Tao, Miami 

Discussant 

Stephanie Madden, Pennsylvania State 

This panel will explore contemporary research 

in moral psychology and ethics of care in an applied 

communication context. Panelists will share key findings 

from their recent work and discuss the challenges and 

opportunities for bringing insights from moral psychology, 

including ethics of care perspectives, into communication 

practice. Panelists will also discuss theoretical and 

methodological considerations for future communication 

research pathways in this area.

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3 to 4:30 p.m. / F037 



America’s Newspapers 


Dean Ridings, CEO, America’s Newspaper 

Panelists 

Dean Ridings, CEO, America’s Newspaper 

Patty Slusher, program director, 

America’s Newspaper 

America’s Newspapers is a new organization formed 

two years ago through the efforts of the then Southern 

Newspaper Publishers Association and Inland Press 

Association. The new organization will continue the work 

of SNPA and Inland in providing research, education and 

practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers’ 

business operations, deepening their community 

engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism. 

Dean Ridings, CEO of America’s Newspapers and 

Patty Slusher, Program Director, will share information on 

the new organization, its advocacy efforts, and an overview 

of America’s Newspapers programs, resources, and 

recent significant activity and advocacy efforts. 

3 to 4:30 p.m. / F038 



Expanding Out Perspectives on Media’s Role 

in a Community 



Examining How Solutions Journalism Builds Street 

Credibility Between Media and Audiences 

Anna Grace Usery, Alabama 

Community Gatekeeping: Understanding Information 

Dissemination by Journalists in Sub-Saharan Africa 

Gregory Gondwe 

and Patrick Ferrucci, Colorado-Boulder, 


Pride and Protest: Intersectional work of Queer 

Community Media 

Yidong Wang, Wisconsin 

and Avery Holton, Utah 

The Role of Integrated Connectedness of Community 

Storytelling Networks in Empowering Migrant Domestic 

Workers 

Jeffry Oktavianus, City University of Hong Kong 

Discussant 


3 to 4:30 p.m. / F039 


and Communication Technology Division 


Using New Communication Technologies 

for Religious Purposes 


Jordyne Carmack, University of the Cumberlands 

Panelists 

Nona Jones, Director of Faith-based Partnerships, 

Facebook 

Jason Moore, United Methodist, both/and 

conferences 

Katie Clark, Episcopal Diocese of Maine 

Amanda Sturgill, Elon 

Bryan Smith, Brigham Young 

Derek Hanson, Christ Community Church, 

Church Communications 

This session will discuss new trends in religious use of 

new communication technologies, including live-streaming 

and social media. 

3 to 4:30 p.m. / F040 

Small Programs 

and Internships and Careers Interest Groups 


High Impact Practices Go Virtual 


Kate Keib, Oglethorpe 

Panelists 


Sharee Broussard, Belmont 

Kim Pearson, The College of New Jersey 

Maurika Smutherman, Winston-Salem State 

From internships to mentorship, speakers and service 

learning, faculty and students pivoted at the onset of


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COVID in unique ways. Faculty on this panel share experiences 

and ideas related to evaluating remote internships, 

online tools to make remote experiences possible 

and how to engage the local community while virtual. 

3 to 4:30 p.m. / F041 



Research 


Deutschmann Award 

The aim of this panel is to bring together graduate students 

and early career scholars, and to provide them with 

professional skills needed for their academic career. The 

panel gives graduate students and early career scholars 

the opportunity to learn from the insights and experiences 

of senior scholars and their peers in their field of study. 

Topics may include how to manage your advisors, dealing 

with imposter syndrome, writing research proposals, 

preparing for prelims, navigating the job market (industry 

and academia), teaching (your first) class, advising students, 

creating online presence, to name a few. The idea 

is to create a safe interactive space that will allow graduate 

students and early career scholars to gain hands-on 

tips that they could immediately apply. 


Dane S. Claussen, Idaho 

2021 Recipient of the Paul J. Deutschmann Award 

Glen T. Cameron, Missouri 

Panelists 

Patricia Curtin, Oregon 

Mugur V. Geana, Kansas 

Bryan Reber, Georgia 

Jae-Hwa Shin, Southern Mississippi 

The award recognizes a body of significant research over 

the course of an individual’s career. It is named in honor 

of Paul J. Deutschmann, who developed the College 

of Communication Arts at Michigan State University. It 

serves as the AEJMC Research Award, recognizing the 

top scholars in the association who have made a major 

impact on the research of the field during their careers. 

5 to 6:30 p.m. / F043 

Communicating Science, Health, Environment, and Risk 

and Media Ethics Divisions 


New Normal for Journalism Ethics in 2020: 

Journalists’ Responsibility in Addressing 

Misinformation in the Year of Coronavirus, Social 

Protests, and Natural Disasters 


Kathryn A. Thier, Maryland 

Panelists 

Kathleen Bartzen Culver, Wisconsin-Madison 

Nicole Kraft, Ohio State 



Anita Varma, Santa Clara 

Friday 

5 to 6:30 p.m. / F042 




Graduate Student and Early Career Professional 

Development Interactive Panel 


Claire M. Segijn, Minnesota 

Panelists 

Jisu Huh, Minnesota 


Kathryn Biddle, Iowa 

Eliana DuBosar, Florida 

Lisa D. Lenior, Missouri 

5 to 6:30 p.m. / F044 


and Mass Communication and Society Divisions 



Topic I — Activism in (as) Journalism 

08-1700-01 • [EA] Can Journalists be Activists? A 

Metajournalistic Discourse Analysis of the Relationship 

Between Journalism and Activism 

Sohana Nasrin, Maryland 

08-1300-02 • [EA] Feigning Indignance, Reinstating 

Power: Paradigm Repair, Femicide, and the Publishing of 

Ingrid Escamilla’s Murdered Body 

Dominique Montiel Valle 

and Zelly Martin, Texas at Austin

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08-1300-03 • Investigative Journalism and Effects of 

Capitalist “Pathologies” on Societal Integration: 

Challenging Habermas’s “Colonization” Thesis 

Ali Mohamed, United Arab Emirates 

08-1300-04 • Black Lives Matter to Media (Finally): A 

Content Analysis of News Coverage During 

Summer 2020 

Jennifer Cox, Salisbury 

Discussant 

Jeanne Criswell, Indianapolis 

Topic II — Visual Media, Representation and Genre 

08-1300-05 • [EA] The One with the Anniversary, the 

Friends 25th Anniversary Extravaganza: A Political 

Economy Approach to a Postmodern Pseudo-event 

Gigi McNamara, Toledo 

08-1300-06 • Genre, the Meaning of Style?: 

Categorizing Japanese Visual Kei 

Lucy March, Temple 

08-1300-07 • That’s Why I Smoke Weed: An Analysis 

of #StonerMom Discourse on TikTok 

Madison Mullis, Memphis 

08-1300-08 • [EA] Hybrid Media or Media Sport? 

Exploring Media Portrayal of Esports Culture 

Steven Young, Southern Mississippi 

Discussant 

Madeleine Esch, Salve Regina 

Topic III — Alternative Media, Representation and 

Marginality 

08-1300-09 • Video Game Community Content 

Creators: A Cultural Intermediary Perspective 

Jeffrey Duncan, Georgia 

08-1300-10 • [EA] Reading Lumpérica from a 

Cinematographic Perspective - A Fragmented Script 

about Marginality 

Alejandro Bruna, Pontificia Universidad Católica 

de Chile 

08-1300-11 • [EA] Emotionally Charged and Politically 

Polarized: An Interpretive Approach to Social Media 

Analysis 

Efrat Gold and Megan Boler, Toronto 

08-1300-12 • [EA] Social Media as an Essential Tactical 

Resource for Police Whistleblowers 

Rhon Teruelle, Purdue-Northwest 

Discussant 

Kalen Churcher, Wilkes 

Topic IV — Race, Power and Gender 

08-1300-13 • [EA] Narrative Formation: Black Women, 

Writing, and Vogue Magazine 

Rachel Parker, Alabama 

08-1300-14 • [EA] Race-conscious Public Health: A 

Critical Discourse Analysis of the Release the Pressure 

Campaign 

Hayley Markovich, Florida 

08-1300-15 • [EA] The Framing of Other: How Framing 

Can Be a Postcolonial Tool for Institutional Power 

Kris Vera-Phillips, Arizona State 

Discussant 

Juliana Trammel, Savannah State 

Topic V — Bias, Cancel Culture and Power 

08-1300-16 • [EA] Talking Through the Algorithm: 

Techno-Institutional Bias and Women’s Voices 

Katherine Dawson, Temple 

08-1300-17 • Membership Negotiation Flow in CCO 

Model May Explain Institutional Bias at a Nonprofit 

Media Site 

Elizabeth Potter, Colorado Boulder 

08-1300-18 • [EA] Courage and Conviction: 

Christopher Columbus and the Rhetorics of Cancel 

Culture 

Brian Snee, Scranton 

08-1300-19 • Beyond the Lens: Black Professional 

Athletes on Racism & the Realities of Breathing While 

Black 

Christina Myers, South Carolina 

Discussant 

Loren Coleman, Howard 

Topic VI — Ideology and the Politics of Identity 

08-1300-20 • Themes, ideology, and Social Media: A 

Critical Analysis of a US Vice President 

Nana Kwame Osei Fordjour, New Mexico 

08-1300-21 • The Spectacle of Flags 

Julie Grandjean, Texas Tech 

08-1300-22 • Thatcherism, Trumpism, and the Potential 

of Organic Ideology 

Kristen Heflin, Kennesaw State 

Discussant 


Topic VII — Discourse, Power and Gender in Asia 

08-1300-23 • [EA] Celebrity Capitol and Social 

Movements: A Textual Analysis of Bollywood 

Celebrities’ Tweets on 2020-21 Indian Farmers’ Protest 

Ali Zain, South Carolina 

08-1300-24 • [EA] Dead and Back to Life: “The Eight 

Hundred” in the Field of Power 

Zhaoxi Liu, Trinity 

08-1300-25 • Quenching the Pan-Asian Desire - Thai’s 

Boys’ Love, Tranculturalism, and Geolinguistic Fusion 

Hong-Chi Shiau, Shih-Hsin


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abstract. 


Topic I — From the Media Producers’ Perspectives 

08-1300-26 • Unprecedented Times: How Journalists 

Coped with the Emotional Impact of Covering 


Gretchen Hoak, Kent 

08-1300-27 • Identity for Sale: Authenticity, 

Commodification, and Agency in YouTube Influencers 

Aysha Vear and Judith Rosenbaum, Maine 

08-1300-28 • Science Podcasters and Centering 

Fairness in Content Creation 

Shaheen Kanthawala, Alabama; 

Shupei Yuan, Northern Illinois; 

and Tanya Ott-Fulmore, Mercer 

Topic II — News Use During the Pandemic 

08-1300-29 • “Infodemic” amid the pandemic: Social 

Media News Use, Homogeneous Discussions, 

Self-perceived Media Literacy, and Misperceptions 

Yan Su and Porismita Borah, Washington State; 

and Xizhu Xiao, Qingdao University, China 

08-1300-30 • News in the Time of Corona: Institutional 

Trust, Collective Narcissism, and the Role of Individual 

Experiences in Perceptions of COVID-19 Coverage 

Ivy Ashe and Ryan Wallace, Texas at Austin; 

Ivan Lacasa-Mas, Universitat Internacional de 

Catalunya 

and Elyse Huang, Texas at Austin 

08-1300-31 • Why and How People Avoid News during 

the Coronavirus Pandemic: An Analysis 

of News Repertoire 

Chang Sup Park, SUNY Albany 

and Barbara Kaye, Tennessee, Knoxville 

08-1300-32 • The New Media Normal: Survey-based 

study of COVID-19 Effects on Motivations 

to Consume Non-News Media* 

Kate Stewart, South Carolina 

Topic III — Presumed Media Influence 

08-1300-33 • My Pandemic News is Better Than Yours: 

Audience Perceptions of Early News Coverage About 

Covid-19 

Mallory Perryman, Virginia Commonwealth 

08-1300-34 • Public Buying Behaviors During the 

COVID-19 Pandemic: Presumed Media Influence 

and the Spillover Effects of SARS 

Tong Jee Goh 

and Shirley Ho, Nanyang Technological 

08-1300-35 • The Media Affect Them, But Not Me: 

Veteran and Civilian Perceptions of News Coverage 

about U.S. Military Veterans 

Scott Parrott, David L. Albright, Nicholas Eckhart, 

and Kirsten Laha-Walsh, Alabama 

08-1300-36 • Determination of the Factors Influencing 

the Third-Person Effects in Health and Environmental 

Concerns 

Jessica Shaw, Soojin Kim, 

and Yongick Jeong, Louisiana State 

Topic IV — Messaging for Effective Communication 

08-1300-37 • What Remains? The Relationship between 

Counterfactual Thinking, Story Outcome, Enjoyment, 

and Emotion in Narratives 

Di Cui, Arkansas Tech 

08-1300-38 • The Effects of Nudges on Social Media 

Users in the Context of COVID-19 Fake News 

Wen Xuan Hor, Rui Yan Leo, Xin Jie Tan, 

and Agnes Yeong Shuan Chai, Nanyang 

Technological 

08-1300-39 • The Interplay of Narrative versus Statistics 

Messages and Misperceptions on COVID-19 Vaccine 

Intention 

Porismita Borah, Xizhu Xiao, 

and Yan Su, Washington State 

08-1300-40 • [EA] Effective Health Risk 

Communications: Lessons Learned about COVID-19 

Pandemic through the Lens of Practitioners 

Taylor Voges, Georgia; 

LaShonda Eaddy, Southern Methodist; 

Shelley Spector, Museum of Public Relations 

and Yan Jin, Georgia 

08-1300-41 • Getting Inspired by Fitspiration Posts: 

Effects of Picture Type, Numbers of Likes and Inspiration 

Emotions on Workout Intentions 

Yuan Sun, Nicholas Eng, 


Topic V — Media Effects, For Good or Bad 

08-1300-42 • Media Consumption, Attitudes, and 

#BlackLivesMatter on the Ground, Court and Field 

Danielle K. Brown, Minnesota, Twin Cities; 

Rachel Mourão, Michigan State; 

and Tania Ganguli, Minnesota 

08-1300-43 • Women on-screen: Exploring the 

Relationship Between Consumption of Female Talent 

Shows and Sexism, Internalization of Beauty Ideals, and 

Self-objectification in China** 

Yi Yang, 

and Yunyi Hu, Chinese University of Hong Kong 

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08-1300-44 • Porn and Consent: The Relationship 

Between College Students’ Pornography Consumption, 

Perception of Realism, and Sexual Consent Intentions 

Niki Fritz, Indiana 

08-1300-45 • [EA] Learning by Doing: The Potential 

Effect of Interactivity on Health Literacy 

Natasha Strydhorst, Sava Kolev, Philippe Chauveau, 

and Eric Milman, Texas Tech 

Topic VI — The Meanings Behind the Messages 

08-1300-46 • New Cuban-American Narratives About 

the Homeland: Moving Away from Traditional 

Storylines Shared by “Hardliners” via Twitter 

Maria DeMoya, DePaul and Vanessa Bravo, Elon 

08-1300-47 • Purpose vs. Mission vs. Vision: Persuasive 

Appeals and Components in Corporate Statements*** 

Alexis Fitzsimmons, Yufan Sunny Qin, 

and Eve Heffron, Florida 

08-1300-48 • Swapping Insults, Neglecting Policy: 

How U.S. Presidential Candidates Communicate 

About Mental Health 

Scott Parrott, Alabama 

and Hailey Grace Allen, North Carolina 


08-1300-49 • From “OK Boomer” to “Boomer 

Remover”: A Critical Examination of Ageist Memes 

by Meme Factories 

Si Yu Lee, Nanyang Technological 

and Jasmon Wan Ting Hoh, National University 

of Singapore 

08-1300-50 • When In Doubt, Blame China: A 

Qualitative Analysis of Conservative Coronavirus 

Content on Reddit 


Topic VII — How We Use Media Technologies: From 

Fitness to Parenting 

08-1300-51 • Fit Bodies that Inspire? A Qualitative 

Study Exploring Perceptions of and Motivations 

for Interacting with Fitspiration Content on Social Media 

Roxanne Vos 

and Serena Daalmans, Radboud University 

08-1300-52 • [EA] Media Parenting Styles: A Typology 

of Parental Guidance of Electronic Media Use 

Sarah Fisher, Florida 

08-1300-53 • [EA] Exploring the Information 

Authentication Acts of Experts, Environmentalists, 

and the Public in Southeast Asia 

Agnes Chuah, Shirley Ho, Edson Tandoc Jr., 

and Peihan Yu, Nanyang Technological 

Kalyani Chadha, Northwestern 


Li Chen, West Texas A&M 


Xi Cui, College of Charleston 

* First Place, Moeller Student Paper Competition 

** Third Place, Student Paper Competition 

*** Second Place, Moeller Student Paper Competition 


abstract. 

5 to 6:30 p.m. / F045 



Electronic News Media in a Political 

and Social Context 



The View of the Blue is Bigger than Black and White 

Melissa Williams 

and Lindsey Maxwell, Southern Mississippi 

[EA] Ten Days of Twitter’s “Who to Follow” Algorithm 

as the Architect of an Election Season Social Network 


“Keep Your Politics Off of My Face(book)!” Online 

News & Hostile Media Bias in the COVID-19 Social 

Media Environment 

Sherice Gearhart and Ioana Coman, Texas Tech 

Alexander Moe, SUNY Brockport 

and Sydney Brammer, Texas Tech 

Antecedents of News Avoidance: Competing Effects of 

Political Interest, News Overload, Trust in News Media, 

and ‘News Finds Me’ Perception 

Manuel Goyanes 

and Alberto Ardèvol-Abreau, Carlos III University, 



Discussant 



abstract 

Discussants 

Ngozi Akinro, Texas Wesleyan 

Frank Waddell, Florida 

Alexander Moe, SUNY Brockport 

Chris Chao Su, Boston University


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5 to 6:30 p.m. / F046 


and Entertainment Studies Interest Group 


Turning the Tables on America’s Food Culture’s 

Racial Tumult 


Joy Jenkins, Tennessee-Knoxville 

Panelists 

Paola Banchero, Alaska-Anchorage 



Prescription for Change: The Erasure of Filipino Nurses 

from American Medical Shows**** 

Kris Vera-Phillips, Arizona State 

Discussant 

Rebecca Leung, Ramapo College of New Jersey 

* Top Faculty Paper, First Place 

** Top Faculty Paper, Second Place 

*** Top Student Paper, First Place 

**** Top Student Paper, Second Place 

5 to 6:30 p.m. / F048 


Bon Appetit is just the most prominent food magazine 

to have turmoil over racial and ethnic disparities made 

public in 2020. Saveur was similarly criticized for failing 

to think beyond its mostly white, upper-middle class 

audience, even when publishing articles about non- 

European cuisines. The problem with food publications, 

and the food-entertainment industry in general, has been 

a reluctance to fully embrace a more diverse audience 

and a more diverse line-up of creators. This panel could 

include research into the array of TV programming about 

food, such as Padma Lakshimi’s Hulu show “Taste the 

Nation,” that are trying to change the narrative, as well as 

programming that has hewn to more conventional food 

narratives. 

5 to 6:30 p.m. / F047 



Minorities and Communication Top Paper Session 


Lourdes Cueva Chacon, San Diego State 

#BlackoutTuesday: News Media’s Change Agents and 

the Degrees of Separation between Journalism and 

Activism* 


Music of Generations: Expressions of the Black 

Experience From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter** 

Christina Myers and Linwan Wu, South Carolina 

“We Just Can’t Afford Not To Be Informed”: How 

Women of Color are PushingAgainst The Theory Of 

Information Poverty In The Digital Age*** 

Chelsea Peterson-Salahuddin, Northwestern 


How the News Shaped COVID and How COVID 

Shaped the News 


Annalise Baines, Kansas 

How Different Market Oriented News Organizations 

Portrayed News Coverage about the CARES Act? 

Michelle Rossi, Colorado-Boulder 

Intermedia Agenda Setting during the COVID-19 

Pandemic: A Computational Analysis of China’s Online 

News 

Hanxiao Wang, Nanjing Normal 


The Numbers Game: How Local Newspapers Used 

Statistics to Frame the Coronavirus Pandemic 

Newly Paul 

and Gwendelyn Nisbett, North Texas 

Struggling to stay alive: Russia’s provincial journalism 

adapts to the COVID-19 Pandemic 

Elina Erzikova, Central Michigan 

and Wilson Lowrey, Alabama 

A Profession in Flux: How Covid-19 Coverage is 

Pushing the Boundaries of Traditional Journalism 


Discussant 

Christopher Etheridge, Kansas 

Friday

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5 to 6:30 p.m. / F049 



Filter Bubbles and Conspiratorial Thinking 


Jian Shi, Syracuse 

Effects of the News Finds Me Perception on Algorithmic 

News Attitudes and Social Media Political Homophily 

Homero Gil de Zúñiga, Salamanca/Pennsylvania 

State; 

Zicheng Cheng, Pennsylvania State; 

and Pablo González-González, Salamanca 

Platform-dependent Effects of Incidental Exposure to 

Political News on Political Knowledge and Political 

Participation 

Sangwon Lee, New Mexico State; 

Andreas Nanz, University of Vienna 

and Raffael Heiss, Management Center Innsbruck 

[EA] Pre-Election Confirmation Bias vs. Informational 

Utility: Election Outcome Prediction Affects Selective 

Exposure 

Kate Luong 

and Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick, Ohio State 

Conspiracy Mentality, Motivated Reasoning, Conspiracy 

Adoption: Effects of Ideology and Participation on 

Electoral Conspiracy Endorsement* 

Yanru Jiang, California Los Angeles 

[EA] The Antecedents and Consequences of Conspiracy 

Beliefs Around COVID-19 

Taeyoung Lee, Melissa Santillana, 

and Ivy Ashe, Texas at Austin 

and Ivan Lacasa-Mas, Universitat Internacional 

de Catalunya 

Discussant 

Megan Duncan, Virginia Tech 

* Third Place Student Paper 


abstract. 

5 to 6:30 p.m. / F050 



Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion in Public Relations 


Chris Wilson, Brigham Young 

Silence Has No Place A Framing Analysis of Corporate 

Sociopolitical Activism Statements 

Yvette Sterbenk, Ithaca; Jamie Ward, EMU; 

Regina Luttrell, Syracuse; 

and Summer Shelton, Idaho State 

Discriminated Against but Engaged: The Role of 

Communicative Behaviors of Racial Minority Employees 

Yeunjae Lee and Jo-Yun Li, Miami 

[EA] Promoting diversity and inclusion: How Fortune 

500 companies talk about Diversity on Twitter 

Denise Bortree, Pennsylvania State; 

Michail Vafeiadis, Auburn; 

Pratiti Diddi, Lamar 

and Ryan Wang, Pennsylvania State 

Racism and Social Issues Management: Examining State 

Universities’ Responses to the Killing of George Floyd 

Drew T. Ashby-King, Maryland 

Discussant 

Natalie Tindall, Lamar 


abstract. 

5 to 6:30 p.m. / F051 



Visual Styles and Visual Storytelling 


Michael Fagans, Mississippi 

[EA] Truly Korean? A Quantitative Study of Film Style 

Under a Colonial System 

William Kohler, 

and Yuhosua Ryoo; Southern Illinois 

[EA] That’s a Good Sign: The Typography and Design 

of Political Yard Signs 


[EA] From “Betty, la fea” to “Betty in NY” -The Impact 

of Digital Storytelling on Telenovelas 

Alejandro Bruna, Pontificia Universidad Católica 

de Chile


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[EA] Multifaceted Protest Paradigm: the Visual Coverage 

of the 2019 Hong Kong Protests in International News 

Frankie Ho Chun Wong, Maryland 

Discussant 

Shahira Fahmy, American in Cairo 


abstract. 

5 to 6:30 p.m. / F052 

leading this conversation are experienced community 

organizers who have extensive backgrounds in community 

radio, local access television, participatory journalism, 

and public interest media policy advocacy. This 

discussion promotes ongoing conversations and future 

research collaborations that help reimagine, build, and 

sustain local storytelling networks. 

5 to 6:30 p.m. / F054 


Commission on the Status of Women and Lesbian, Gay, 

Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Interest Group 


Transforming Transgender Journalism Education 



Panelists 

Chelsea Reynolds, California State Fullerton 


Coverage of transgender issues is more important than 

ever. Violence against this community continues, and 

President Trump’s steady actions against the LGBTQ 

community will take time to recover from. Educators 

need resources to better teach students how to report and 

write about transgender issues with context, empathy and 

intelligence. 

5 to 6:30 p.m. / F053 


and Scholastic Journalism Division 


Community Media, Engaged Journalism, 

and the Future of Local Information Access 


Activism, Representation and Religion: Sport Media 

and Diversity 


Dunja Antunovic, Minnesota 

“Stick to Tennis”? Media and Public Narratives in 

Reaction to Naomi Osaka’s #BLM Activism* 

Dinfin Mulupi, Maryland, College Park 

#TriathlonSoWhite: A Critical Assessment of the 

Representation, Underrepresentation and Branding of 

Intersectional Bodies on the @USATriathlon 

Official Instagram Account 

Shannon Scovel, Maryland 

Covering the Rooney Rule: A Content Analysis of Print 

Coverage of NFL Head Coach 

Guy Harrison, Charli Kerns 

and Jason Stamm, Tennessee 

[EA] Proud: A Case Study of the Social Media 

Representation of Ibtihaj Muhammad 

Adrianne Grubic, Texas at Austin 

Discussant 

Dunja Antunovic, Minnesota 



abstract. 

Friday 



Panelists 

Sally Kane, CEO, National Federation of Community 

Broadcasters 

Alicia Bell, Media 2070 Director, Free Press 

Matthew Schuster, Executive Director, 

Public Media Network 

This panel discusses the contemporary contours of community 

media advocacy work in the U.S. The panelists 

7 to 8:30 p.m. / F055 



Best of the Best: Advertising Division Top Paper 

Session 


Kelty Logan, Colorado

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Seeing a New Self in Dadvertisements: Responses to Ads 

and Fatherhood Anxiety* 

Benjamin Johnson, Bhakti Sharma, Sophia Mueller, 

and Cynthia Morton, Florida; 

and Jon Morris, AdSAM 

McAds: Where Collectivism and Culture Collide** 

Sarah Scott, Kennesaw State 

Social Media Advertising and Big Data at the 

Intersection: A Diversity Perspective to Interdisciplinary 

Communication*** 

Ye Wang, Missouri-Kansas City; 

Huan Chen, Florida; 

Srichakradhar Reddy Nagireddy, BelowFive; 

and Yugyung Lee, Missouri-Kansas City 

Blending Sex-Positivity and Racial Justice Advocacy in 

Black-Centric Health Advertising: Intersectional Health 

Communication Targeting High-Risk Black Cisgender 

Heterosexual and Black LGBTQ Populations Through a 

HIV Prevention Social Media Campaign**** 

Minjie Li, Tampa 

Discussant 

Eunjin (Anna) Kim, Southern California 

* First Place Open Competition Paper Award Winner 

** First Place Student Paper Award Winner 

*** First Place Special Topics Paper Award Winner 

**** First Place Professional Freedom & Responsibility 

(PF&R) Paper Award Winner 

7 to 8:30 p.m. / F056 


Division 


Communicating Science, Health, Environment 

and Risk Division Top Paper Session 


Kajsa Dalrymple, Iowa 

Integrating Psychometric Paradigm of Risk and Issue 

Attention Cycle: A Study of Risk Information in News 

Coverage of Avian and Swine Influenza* 

Timothy Fung, Hong Kong Baptist 

and Kang Namkoong and Jiyoun Kim, Maryland 

Po Yan Lai, Hong Kong Baptist 

Facing the Strain: The Persuasive Effects of Conversion 

Messages on COVID-19 Vaccination Attitudes and 

Behavioral Intentions** 

Jeff Conlin, Michelle Baker, Bingbing Zhang, 

Heather Shoenberger 

and Fuyuan Shen, Pennsylvania State 

The Growth and Disciplinary Convergence of 

Environmental Communication: A Bibliometric Analysis 

of the Field (1970-2019)*** 

Karen Akerlof, Katherine E. Rowan 

and James L. Olds, George Mason 

and Julia Hathaway, Stony Brook 

and Kristin Timm, Alaska Fairbanks 

How Lay Audiences Evaluate Scientific Uncertainty 

Disclosure: The Roles of Source and Preference for 

Communication of Uncertainty**** 

Chelsea Ratcliff and Rebekah Wicke, Georgia 

Seeing from the Eyes of Suffered Peers: Using Distanceframed 

Narrative to Communicate Risks Related to 

E-cigarette Use***** 

Sixiao Liu, Buffalo 

Discussant 

Avery Holton, Utah 

* Top Faculty Paper (Tied) 

** Second Place Top Faculty Paper 

*** Third Place Top Faculty Paper 

**** Fourth Place Top Faculty Paper 

***** Eason Prize Winner/Top Student Paper 

7 to 8:30 p.m. / F057 



Top Faculty Research Paper Session 


Pamela Brubaker, Brigham Young 

Theme — Gene Burd Faculty Research Paper 

Competition 

Whom Should I Blame? How Source Identifications 

of Computer-generated Imagery Influencers Affect 

Consumer’s Responsibility Attribution in Brand 

Endorsement* 

Fanjue Liu, Mo Chen, and Yu-Hao Lee, Florida 

Fear of Surveillance: Examining Social Media Users’ 

Perception of Surveillance and Willingness to Express 

Opinion on Social Media** 

Mustafa Oz, Tennessee, Knoxville 

and Akan Yanik, Adnan Menderes University 

The Str(AI)ght Scoop: Artificially Intelligent Journalists 

Reduce Perceptions of Hostile Media Bias*** 

Joshua Cloudy, Jaime Banks, 

and Nick Bowman, Texas Tech 

Effects of Negativity Bias and Serial Positioning of 

Consumer Processing of Online Reviews 

Yukyung Lee and Carolyn Lin, Connecticut


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Correct Me if I’m Wrong: The Role of In-group 

Dynamics in Correcting Misinformation 

Edson Tandoc Jr., James Lee, Xin Ping Lee, 

Yu Xuan Joycelyn Teo, 

and Chei Sian Lee, Nanyang Technological 

Discussant 

Hyunjin Seo, Kansas 

*First Place Faculty Paper 



7 to 8:30 p.m. / F058 



Best of CTAM 

Embodied Congruence as a Framework for 

Understanding User Experiences with Immersive 

Technologies**** 

Anne Smink, University of Amsterdam; 

Lindsay Hahn, Buffalo; 

Bryan Trude, and Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn, Georgia 

Discussant 

Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick, Ohio State 

* First Place Open Paper Competition; Top Method 

Paper 

** Second Place Open Paper Competition 

*** Chaffee-McLeod Top Student Paper 

****Top Theory Paper 

7 to 8:30 p.m. / F059 




Perceived Exposure to Misinformation Fuels Emotional 

Concerns about COVID-19: 

A Cross-Country, Multi-Method Investigation* 

Jörg Matthes, University of Vienna; 

Nicoleta Corbu, National University of Political 

Studies and Public Administration, Romania; 

Soyeon Jin, Munich Technical; 

Yannis Theocharis, Technical University in Munich; 

Christian Schemer, University of Mainz; 

Karolina Koc-Michalska, Audencia Business School; 

Peter van Aelst, University of Antwerp; 

Frank Esser, University of Zurich; 

Toril Aalberg, Norwegian University of Science 

and Technology; 

Ana Cardenal, Open University of Catalonia; 

Laia Castro, University of Zurich; 

Claes de Vreese, University of Amsterdam; 

David Hopmann, University of Southern Denmark; 

Tamir Sheafer, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; 

Sergio Splendore, Università degli Studi di Milano; 

James Stanyer, Loughborough University; 

Agnieszka Stępińska, Adam Mickiewicz University; 

Jesper Strömbäck, University of Gothenburg; 

and Václav Štětka, Loughborough University 

A Multi-Trait-Multi-Perspective Conceptualization 

and Operationalization of Relationship: Validation of 

Measures for Organization-Public Relationship Types** 

Yeunjae Lee, Miami 

and Jeong-Nam Kim, Oklahoma 

Permanently Connected: Behavior, Perception, and 

Their Political Implications*** 

Slgi (Sage) Lee, Michigan 

Refereed Research Paper Session – Top Paper Session 

The Best of Electronic News 


Beth Concepción, Oglethorpe University 

What Influences the Influences?: Examining National 

Culture, Human Development and Journalism 

Influences* 

Steven Collins, William Kinnally, 

and Jennifer Sandoval, Central Florida 

Hostility Toward the Press: A Synthesis of Terms, 

Research, and Future Directions in Examining 

Harassment of Journalists** 

Kaitlin Miller, Alabama 

Local News on Facebook: How Television Broadcasters 

Use Facebook to Enhance Social Media News 

Engagement*** 

Miao Guo and Fu-Shing Sun, Ball State 

Distant Suffering of Coronavirus Outbreak: Comparing 

BBC World and Al Jazeera English Epidemic Reporting 

in China**** 

Wendy L.Y. Leung, The Chinese University 

of Hong Kong 

Discussant 

Mary T. Rogus, Ohio 

* Top paper 

** Second Place Paper 

*** Third Place Paper 


Friday

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7 to 8:30 p.m. / F060 



Award-Winning Papers in International 

Communication 


Sally-Ann Cruikshank, Middle Tennessee State 

Decolonizing Methodologies in Media Studies* 

Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed, Georgia 

Riot on the Hill: International Coverage of a U.S. 

Insurrection Attempt** 

Dinfin Mulupo, Keegan Clements-Housser, 

Jodi Friedman, Nataliya Rostova, Gea Ujčić 

Matt Wilson, Frankie Ho Chun 

and Linda Steiner, Maryland, College Park 

Perception and Deception: Examining Third- and First- 

Person Perceptual Gaps About Deepfakes in US and 

Singapore*** 

Saifuddin Ahmed, Nanyang Technological 

Conspiracy about COVID-19 Pandemic in Contemporary 

China: What is the Authority’s Role on Weibo**** 

Calvin Cheng, Wanjiang Zhang 

and Qiyue Zhang, The Chinese University 

of Hong Kong 

Discussant 

Wayne Wanta, Florida 

* First Place Paper, Stevenson Open Competition, 

African Journalism Studies Award 

** Second Place Paper, Stevenson Open Competition 

*** Third Place Paper, Stevenson Open Competition, 

Asian Journal of Communication Best Paper 

**** First Place Paper, Markham Competition 

7 to 8:30 p.m. / F061 



Top Paper Session 



The Positive First Amendment in Constitutional History, 

Law, and Theory* 

Stephen Bates, Nevada, Las Vegas 

Perilous in Seattle: The Dangers of Covering Protests and 

Implications for the Journalist’s Privilege** 

Anthony Fargo, Indiana 

The ReDigi Case and the Digital Challenge to the First 

Sale Doctrine*** 

J. Patrick McGrail, Jacksonville State 

and Ewa McGrail, Georgia State 

A Meta-Analytic Review of the Effects of Pretrial 

Publicity on Jury Perception**** 

Morgan Band, Florida**** 

Discussant 

Jane Kirtley, Minnesota 


** Second-place Faculty Paper 

*** Top Faculty Debut Paper 


7 to 8:30 p.m. / F062 



Top Papers in the Newspaper and Online Division 



“I Didn’t Know How We Were Going to Survive”: 

COVID-19’s Disruption of U.S. Community Newspapers* 

Teri Finneman, Kansas; Will Mari, Louisiana State, 

and Ryan Thomas, Missouri 

Rethinking Hybridity in Diaspora Journalism: A Study of 

Exiled Syrian Journalists’ Advocacy Networks and Role 

Perceptions** 

Rana Arafat, City University of London 

How Partisan is Partisan? Media Framing of the 2017 

Tax Cuts and Job Act*** 

Amanda Comfort, Beverly Horvit 

and Camile McManus, Missouri 

An “Assumption of Bad Faith”: Using Fake News 

Rhetoric to Create Journalistic Teaching Moments**** 

Kelsey Mesmer, Wayne State 

“The Chinese Virus” and Conditional Partisan Framing? 

An Analysis of the Cross-platform Partisan Framing 

in American News Coverage of China’s Role in the 

COVID-19 Pandemic***** 

Yiyan Zhang and Briana Trifiro, Boston University 

Discussant 

Patrick Ferrucci, Colorado-Boulder 

* First Place Open Competition Paper Award 

** Second Place Open Competition Paper Award 

*** Third Place Open Competition Paper Award 

**** First Place Student Paper Award 

*****Second Place Student Paper Award


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7 to 8:30 p.m. / F063 



Best of Political Communication 


Mallory Perryman, Virginia Commonwealth 

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed: Avoidance of Targeted 

Political Advertising in Response to Privacy Concerns, 

Perceived Personalization and Overload** 

Marlis Stubenvoll, Alice Binder, Selina Noetzel, 

Melanie Hirsch, and Joerg Matthes, Vienna 

Speak Up or Quiet Down? The Spiral of Silence, 

Opinion Leadership, Social Capital, and Presidential 

Candidate Support on Social Media*** 

Alec Tefertiller, Baylor; 

Jacob Groshek and Raluca Cozma, Kansas State 

The Politics of Resistance: An Ethnographic Examination 

of Political Alienation and Radical Disengagement of the 

Rural Underclass* 

Danny Parker, Wisconsin-Madison 

Engaging with Vilifying Stereotypes: The Role of 

Algorithmic Use in Perpetuating Misinformation about 

Muslim Congresswomen**** 

Saifuddin Ahmed, Nanyang Technological 

and Teresa Gil-Lopez, Koblenz-Landau 

Seeing Political Information Online Incidentally. Effects 

of First- and Second-Level Incidental Exposure on 

Democratic Outcomes***** 

Andreas Nanz and Joerg Matthes, Vienna 

Discussant 

Timothy Macafee, Concordia 


** First Place Paper 

*** Second Place Paper 

**** Third Place Paper 

***** Fourth Place Paper 

7 to 8:30 p.m. / F064 



Conceptualizing Journalism 


Peter Bobkowski, Kansas 

Student Activism vs. Student Journalism: Racial 

Justice, Free Speech, and Journalism Ethics in College 

Newspapers* 

Kathleen Bartzen Culver, Wisconsin-Madison 

and Jason Shepard, California State, Fullerton 

The Future of the Field: Journalism Degree Motivations, 

Roles and Relevancy of the Field 

Brian J. Bowe, The American University in Cairo/ 

Western Washington; 

Lucinda Davenport, Michigan State 

and Robin Blom, Ball State 

Student Journalists Exhibit Different Mindsets, Agree on 

the Need for Truthful Reporting 

Greg Munno, Megan Craig, Alex Richards, 

and Mohammad Ali, Syracuse 

A Mission-based Argument for Private K-12 Student Press 


Discussant 

Jean Norman, Weber State 


7 to 8:30 p.m. / F065 



Hashtags and Sexual Assault: Creating Awareness 

Beyond #MeToo 



#MeToo Academia: Media Coverage of Academic 

Sexual Misconduct at U.S. Universities 

Stine Eckert, Jade Metzger-Riftkin, Fatima Albrehi, 

Najma Akhther, and Zalika Aniapam, Wayne State 

and Linda Steiner, Maryland 

It was All Consensual: The News, Sexual Assault, and 

Student Athletes 

Leticia Couto and Stacey Hust, Washington State 

#freebritney, #freekesha, #freemelania: Hashtag Activism 

and Notions of Feminism in Online Communities 

Jodi Friedman, Maryland 

[EA] Building the Gender Beat: U.S. Journalists Refocus 

the News in the Aftermath of #MeToo 

Meg Heckman, Northeastern 

How to Connect: Sexual Assault Activists’ Reliance on 

Social Media 

Mikayla Pevac, Pennsylvania State 

Discussant 

Candi Carter Olson, Utah State 

Friday

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7 to 8:30 p.m. / F066 



Top Papers in GSIG 


Regina Luttrell, Syracuse 

Toward a Conceptual Model of Implicit Racial Bias 

and Representation of African Americans in Media* 

Christina Myers, South Carolina 

Race on the Debate Stage: Senators Booker and Harris’s 

Discussions of Blackness in Democratic Primary 

Debates** 

Julie Aromi, Rutgers 

Why are Smartphones a Thief Who Steals Time? An 

Empirical Study of Smartphone Dependence in China*** 

Yue Wang, University of Leuven 

[EA] The Episodes of Health Crisis Information Response 

Process Among Migrant Domestic Workers During the 

COVID-19 Pandemic 

Jeffry Oktavianus, Yanqing Sun, 


Discussant 

Erica R. Salkin, Whitworth 

* Guido Stempel Award Top Paper Award – First Place 

** Top Paper – Second Place 

*** Top Paper – Third Place 


abstract 

7 to 8:30 p.m. / F067 



ICIG Research Papers 



Benefiting or Exploiting: Judicial Interpretations of 

What Constitutes a Legal Unpaid Journalism and 

Mass Communication Internship Under the Primary 

Beneficiary Test 

Joey Senat and John McGuire, Oklahoma State 

[EA] Bilingual Spanish journalism: Preparing students for 

the Future 

Cristina Azocar 

and Lourdes Cárdenas, San Francisco State 

[EA] Internship Practices in Journalism and Mass 

Communication Programs: A Review 

of ACEJMC-Accredited Programs 

Brian J. Bowe, American U in Cairo/ 

Western Washington 

and Robin Blom and Elena Lazoff, Ball State 

Discussant 

John Chapin, Pennsylvania State 


abstract. 

7 to 8:30 p.m. / F068 



Trends in Religious News Reporting 

and Advertising 


Sarah Holton, Concordia, Wisconsin 

Who Says “Muslims are Not Terrorists”? News 

Differentiation, Muslim vs. Non-Muslim Sources, and 

Attitudes Toward Muslims* 

Ruta Kaskeleviciute, Helena Knupfer, 

and Joerg Matthes, Vienna 

From Lifestyle Journalism to General News: Field Theory 

in the Hard News Turn of Religion Reporting** 

Gregory Perreault 

and Kathryn Montalbano, Appalachian State 

Branded Spirituality: Gurus, Globalization, and Neo- 

Spiritual Nationalism in Indian Marketplace*** 

Suman Mishra, Southern Illinois-Edwardsville 

[EA] Competing Binaries: “Sufism” vs “Salafism” in The 

New York Times 

Ibrahim Abusharif, Northwestern in Qatar 

This session will explore the relationships between religion 

news reporting and public perception. For example, 

Islam and Hindu religion are examined in journalism and 

strategic communication context, respectively. 





abstract.


143 


8:45 to 10:15 p.m. / F069 




Taylor Wen, South Carolina 

8:45 to 10:15 p.m. / F070 


Division 



Kajsa Dalrymple, Iowa 

8:45 to 10:15 p.m. / F074 


Division 




8:45 to 10:15 p.m. / F075 




Matthew Haught, Memphis 

8:45 to 10:15 p.m. / F071 

8:45 to 10:15 p.m. / F076 




Michael Horning, Virginia Tech 




Sherice Gearhart, Texas Tech 

Friday 

8:45 to 10:15 p.m. / F072 




Brett Sherrick, Purdue 

8:45 to 10:15 p.m. / F077 


Executive Committee Meeting 


Amanda Bradshaw, Florida 

8:45 to 10:15 p.m. / F073 




Nina Brown, Syracuse


AEJMC 

First Amendment 

Award 

2021 Winner 

OMAR 

JIMENEZ

Saturday Sessions 

145 


9 to 10 a.m. / S001 

10:30 to Noon / S003 


Communication 


2020-21 Council of Divisions Meeting II 


Jan Lauren Boyles, Iowa State, CoDV Chair 

and Meredith Clark, Virginia, CoDV Vice Chair 

Incoming D/IG heads and vice heads are encouraged to 

attend this meeting. 

10:30 to Noon / S002 


Division 


Addressing Wicked Problems: Communicating 

about Sustainability 


Christina J. Najera, Texas Tech 

“Air Quality Just Isn’t Very Sexy”: Audiences, Problems, 

Solutions in Communicating About Wildfire Smoke in 

the West 

Susan Clotfelter, Colorado State 

How Do Food Date Labels Lead to Consumer-level 

Food Waste? A Mixed-design Experiment 

Ziyang Gong, Leona Yi-Fan Su, 

Jennifer Shiyue Zhang, Tianli Chen 

and Yi-Cheng Wang, Illinois 

Moral Hazard or Not? The Effects of Learning About 

Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) on Mitigation Support 

P. Sol Hart and Victoria Campbell-Arvai, Michigan; 

and Kimberly Wolske, Chicago; 

and Kaitlin Raimi, Michigan 

Community Resilience and the News: Local and 

National Hurricane Coverage 

Lola Xie and Juliet Pinto, Pennsylvania State 

[EA] The Role of Felt Responsibility in Climate Change 

Political Participation 

Sammi Munson, John Kotcher 

and Ed Maibach, George Mason 

and Seth Rosenthal and Anthony Leiserowitz, Yale 

Discussant 

Seoyeon Kim, Alabama 


abstract. 



Re-Evaluating Methods to Advance Research 


Michael Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong 

Does Sample Source Matter for Theory? Testing Model 

Invariance with the Influence of Presumed Influence 

Model Across Amazon Mechanical Turk and Qualtrics 

Panels 

T. Franklin Waddell, Florida; 

Holly Overton, Pennsylvania State 

and Robert McKeever, South Carolina 

Research Patterns in Communication (2009-2019): 

Testing Female Representation and Publication 

Efficiency, Within Most Cited Scholars and Across the 

Field 

Manuel Goyanes, Carlos III University; 

Marton Demeter, National University 

of Public Service; 

Aurea Grané, Carlos III University; 

Tamás Toth, Kodolányi János University; 



Focus Groups in Communication, Journalism, and 

Media Research: A Reappraisal 

Martin Johannes Riedl, Gina Chen, 

and Tamar Wilner, Texas at Austin 

Emotional Appeals, Climate Change, and Young Adults: 

A Direct Replication of Skurka et al. (2018) 

Christofer Skurka, Pennsylvania State; 

Rainer Romero-Canyas, Helen Joo, 

and David Acup, Environmental Defense Fund 

and Jeff Niederdeppe, Cornell 

Discussant 

Judith Rosenbaum, Maine 

10:30 to Noon / S004 




Journalism and the Carceral State: The Challenges 

of Reporting on American Prisons 



Saturday

146 



Panelists 

The Risk of “Othering”: Balancing Ethical Principles 

and Journalistic Values in Immersive Prison 

Reporting 


The Ethics of Bringing Stories Across the Walls 

J. Michael Lyons, Saint Joseph’s 

Alternate Sources: Using Lack of Access to Teach 

Students about FOIA, Formal Reports and Past- 

Tense accounts 

Mary Kay McFarland, West Virginia 

Through the Bars: How Media Produced with 

and by Prisoners Offers an Alternative Lens 

to Understand the Criminal Justice System 


Discussant 

Paromita Pain, Nevada, Reno 

This panel addresses the need to improve coverage of 

prisons in the U.S. and the institutional impediments to 

such coverage. The U.S. has the highest rate of incarceration 

of any industrialized country. Approximately 1.5 million 

people are in prison, rivaling the population of many 

of the country’s largest cities, and 200,000 people are in 

prison for life. People of color bear the brunt of this incarceration 

binge. The rate of imprisonment for women is 

increasing as well, though their overall numbers remain a 

fraction of male prisoners. Many states contract with forprofit 

prison contractors. The Bureau of Justice Statistics 

estimates that the U.S. spends a little over $80 billion on 

prisons, but an advocacy group called the Equal Justice 

Initiative argues that the true cost to taxpayers and families 

far exceeds that number. Yet because they are located 

far outside urban centers, strategically out of sight, the 

prison system is often out of reach for most news organizations. 

As a result, inmates – about ten percent of whom 

are estimated to be innocent – are denied the chance to 

be seen or heard, as even their own families struggle to 

visit. This is a big story, ye one that is not well-covered, 

and not necessarily for a lack of trying. The Society of 

Professional Journalists advocates for improved journalistic 

access to the American prison system and maintains 

a webpage with resources and information for reporters 

pursuing access, but access remains difficult for all journalists 

and especially multi-media journalists. The virtual 

ban on visual coverage means that TV news will rarely, 

if ever, touch the topic. Sometimes officials will set up a 

media area where officials will hold news conferences, 

but this is at the state’s discretion. Access to inmates is 

difficult, and case law has sided with prisons, suggesting 

that journalists have no more rights than the general 

public to prison access 

10:30 to Noon / S005 



Rhetoric, Social Media, and Activism 


Carolyn Walcott, Kennesaw State 

Indian Journalists’ Perceptions About Social Media’s 

Usefulness, Trustworthiness and Value as a Breaking 

News Platform 


Russian Bots’ Narrative During Donald J. Trump’s 2020 

Senate Impeachment Trial: A Text Mining Analysis 

Dariya Tsyrenzhapova 

and Jo Lukito, Texas at Austin 

The Concept of “New Media” among Jordanian News 

Producers 

Shlash Alzyoud, Southern Mississippi 

[EA] Advocating International Cooperation and 

Confirming International Status: Metaphors 

Used by WHO in COVID-19 Briefing Speeches 

Jiahui Dai and Yangyue Xiong, Communication 

University of China 

[EA] Networked Framing and the Role of Elite 

Gatekeeping During the #TaiwanCanHelp Hashtag 

Activism Campaign 

Anita Kueichun Liu and Yotam Ophir, Buffalo; 

Dror Walter, Georgia State 

and Itai Himelboim, Georgia 

Discussant 

Carolyn Walcott, Kennesaw State 


abstract. 

10:30 to Noon / S006 



Moral and Ethical Orientations in Murky 

Media Contexts 


Deborah Dwyer, North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

Ethical Organizational Listening in Issues Management 

for Stakeholder Engagement and Moral Responsibility 

Shannon Bowen, South Carolina 

and Marlene Neill, Baylor


147 


I Dare Someone to Try: SNL’s “Can I Play That” and the 

Ethics of Whitewashing and Stereotypes 

Rick Moore, Boise State 

Moral Orientations and Traits of Public Relations 

Exemplars 

Patrick Plaisance, Pennsylvania State; 

Marlene Neill, Baylor 

and Jin Chen, Pennsylvania State 

Moral Foundations in Life Narratives of Emerging Adults 

in Media-Related Fields 

David Craig, Oklahoma; 

Katie Place, Quinnipiac; 

Erin Schauster 

and Patrick Plaisance, Pennsylvania State; 

Chris Roberts, Alabama; Ryan Thomas 

and Casey Yetter, Oklahoma 

and Jin Chen, Pennsylvania State 

Discussant 


10:30 to Noon / S007 



2021 Historically Black Colleges 

and Universities Roundtable 


Calvin Hall, North Carolina Central 

Panelists 

Rockell Brown Burton, Texas State 

L. Simone Byrd, Alabama State 

George Daniels, Alabama 

Robbie Morganfield, North Carolina A&T State 

DeWayne Wickham, Morgan State 

10:30 to Noon / S008 


Second Place Award 

Poetry of the Ordinary 

John Freeman, Florida 

Third Place Award 

Musical Mangrove 

Elja Roy, Minnesota 

10:30 to Noon / S009 



Politics, Race, and Influence: Intersectionality, 

Erasure, and Misinformation in News and 

Leadership 


Natalee Seely, Ball State 

[EA] Mentorship as a Tool to Close the Leadership 

Gender Gap: Understanding How Professional 

Relationships Impact Women During Their First Five 

Years in the Strategic Communications Industry 

Katie Olsen and Danielle LaGree, Kansas State 

[EA] #JusticeForBreonnaTaylor: A Case Study of the 

Evolution of the Black Lives Matter Movement 

Meredith Clark and Miyoung Chong, Virginia 

An Analysis of Memes and Misinformation about 

Kamala Harris’s Rise to U.S. Vice President 

Dorothy Bland, North Texas; Mia Moody, Baylor; 

Gheni Platenburg, Auburn; Mira Lowe, Florida; 

and Lawrence Mosley, Omni Analytics Group 

[EA] Momala and Willie Brown’s Mistress: A 

Computational Analysis of Gendered News Coverage 

of Kamala Harris 

Rahul Bhargava and Meg Heckman, Northeastern; 

and Emily Boardman Ndule, Media Cloud 

Framing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Intersectionality and 

News Frames in Local and National Press Coverage 

Maha Bashri, United Arab Emirates 

Discussant 

Andrea Weare, Nebraska-Omaha 

Saturday 

Research Panel 

Creative Research Winners 


Tara Pixley, Loyola Marymount 

Panelists 

First Place Award 

Finding Matilda 

Susan Hardillo, Hartford 


abstract. 

This session explores the intersection of women in 

prominent political roles, women in leadership within 

the media industry, and the absence of women in the 

#BlackLivesMatter movement to better understand the 

importance of inclusion and accurate representation.

148 



10:30 to Noon / S010 


Communication 


Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly 

Editorial Board Meeting 


Daniela Dimitrova, Iowa State; editor, JMCQ 

10:30 am to 3 pm / S011 


Communication 


AEJMC Board of Directors 




12:30 to 2 p.m. / S012 



Advertising and the Pandemic 


Robin Spring, Grand Valley State 

It’s OK to Not Feel OK; Representations of Mental 

Health in Advertising 

Christen Buckley, Pennsylvania State 

Advertising in the times of COVID: A Tight-Loose 

Analysis of Pandemic-Related TV Commercials 

Cynthia Morton, Florida; 

Naa Amponsah Dodoo, Emerson; 

Jorge Villegas, Illinois at Springfield 

Sophia Mueller, and Hye Soo Chang, Florida 

“Do Good and Be ‘Liked’”: Corporate Messaging on Social 

Media During COVID-19 and Consumer Responses 

Jing Yang, Loyola University Chicago 

Ebbe Bertellotti, Chicago 

Ava Francesca Battocchio, Michigan State 

Camila Teran, Loyola University Chicago 

[EA] Advertising During the Pandemic: The Influence 

of Susceptibility and Severity on “COVID-19 Appeal” 

Perceptions and Advertising Effectiveness 

Colin Piacentine, South Carolina 

[EA] Sell, Ignore, or Address? Examining Consumers’ 

Emotional Responses to Different Types of Social Media 

Influencers’ Posts During the COVID-19 Outbreak 

Maral Abdollahi, Minnesota; 

Wonsun Shin, University of Melbourne 

Smitha Muthya Sudheendra, Jisu Huh, 

and Jaideep Srivastava, Minnesota 

Discussant 

Juan Mundel, Arizona State 


abstract. 

12:30 to 2 p.m. / S013 



Top Student Research Paper Session 


Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch, Connecticut 

Listening In: An Assessment of Uses and Gratifications 

with Clubhouse Users* 

Caleb Porter, Camilla Owens 

and Ljubica Ivanović, Brigham Young 

Hyperpersonal Communication in Social Media: 

Examining the Effect of Social Media Affordance in 

Self-Disclosure Processes by Integrating Cognitive Load 

Perspective** 

Mengru Sun, Wei Huang, 

and Wencai Hu, Zhejiang University & City 

University of Hong Kong 

Exploring COVID-19 Disinformation Through the Lens 

of Modality*** 

Bing Ming Woo, Shi Nan Soh, 

Megan Mingzhen Tan, 

and Dilys Ting Ying Woon, Nanyang Technological 

The Power of a Blue Check: Measuring the Impact of 

Influencers on Instagram Advertisements 

Emily McCaul, Jocelyn Hotter, Jess King, 

and Jenna Davis, Virginia Tech 

Community Building with Discord: Effects of Interface 

Elements on User Perception and Experiences with 

Discord Servers 

Ryan Tan and Cheng Chen, Pennsylvania State 

Discussant 

David Silva, Kent State 


** Second Place Student Paper 

*** Third Place Student Paper


149 


12:30 to 2 p.m. / S014 


12:30 to 2 p.m. / S016 



Journalists, Activists and Echo Chambers 


Rebecca Kern, Manhattan College 

Living For—And Maybe Off—Journalism: French and 

American Journalists’ Career Expectations 

Matthew Powers, Washington, Seattle 

and Sandra Vera-Zambrano, Universidad 

Iberoamericana 

The Caucasities of Portland: Theorizing White Protests 

for Black Lives 

John Vilanova, Lehigh 

The “Major Mea Culpa:” Journalistic Discourse When 

Professional Norms are Broken 

Erica Salkin 

and Kevin Grieves, Whitworth 

Theorizing the Mediasphere: NRA Media and Multimodal 

Dependency 

Dawn Gilpin, Arizona State 

12:30 to 2 p.m. / S015 



Hurricane Katrina: A Look Back at Reporting and 

How the Storm Changed the Media Landscape in 

New Orleans and the Gulf South 




Broussard Teaching Awards: “Transformative 

Teaching of Media and Journalism History” 


Amber Roessner, Tennessee, Knoxville 

Panelists 

Ira Chinoy, Maryland 

Teri Finneman, Kansas 

Kristin Gustafson, Washington-Bothell 

Donna L. Halper, Lesley University 

Robert Kerr, Oklahoma 

This contest and panel features original and tested transformative 

teaching ideas and practices that address pedagogies 

of diversity, collaboration, community, and/or 

justice. As originally envisioned by Kristin L. Gustafson, 

the division’s former Teaching Standards co-chair, the 

Jinx Coleman Broussard Teaching Awards competition 

acknowledges and shares best practices publicly that 

journalism educators and media historians use in their 

classrooms. The teaching ideas shared on this panel 

collectively speak to the AEJMC Teaching Standards 

Committee’s focus on curriculum, leadership, course 

content and teaching methods, or assessment. The ideas 

were select-ed in part based on their potential for transferability 

of the course content and teaching methods to 

curriculum in other institutions. 

12:30 to 2 p.m. / S017 


Saturday 

Panelists 

Travers Mackel, WDSU-TV New Orleans 

Lindsey Maxwell, Southern Mississippi 

Norman Robinson, WDSU-TV New Orleans (retired) 

Mark Schleifstein, The New Orleans Times-Picayune 

/ Advocate 

Nikki Usher, Illinois 


Examining Social Media’s Omnipresent Influences 


Christina Najera, Texas Tech 

A Content Analysis of Alcohol Posts from Adolescents, 

Brands, Influencers, and Celebrities in Facebook and 

Instagram’s Persistent and Ephemeral Messages 

Sofie Vranken and Sebastian Kurten, KU Leuven 

How Do NPOs Effectively Engage with Publics on 

Social Media? Examining the Effects of Interactivity 

and Emotion on Twitter 

Yafei Zhang, West Texas A&M; 

Chuqing Dong, Michigan State 

and Yuan Daniel Cheng, Minnesota – Twin Cities

150 



Pornography Addiction and Social Media: An Exploratory 

Study on the Impact of Social Media on the Road to Porn 

Abstinence 

Débora Martini 

and Harsha Gangadharbatla, Colorado - Boulder 

Change is the Only Constant: Young Adults as Platform 

Architects and the Consequences for News 

Kjerstin Thorson 

and Ava Francesca Battocchio, Michigan State 

Social Media Use Intensity and Privacy Concerns: The 

Implications for Social Capital 

Iveta Imre and Jason Cain, Mississippi 

Discussant 

Louisa Ha, Bowling Green State 

12:30 to 2 p.m. / S018 

Media Managements, Economics and Entrepreneurship 

Division 


Educating Media Management Professionals 


Marianne Barrett, Arizona State 

Educating Effective Practice Communication for 

Sustainable Development in Thailand* 

Ray Wang, Mahidol University 

Teaching Media Management in International 

Perspective: A Comparative Content Analysis 

of Curricula in the US and Germany 

Castulus Kolo, Macromedia University; 

Bozena Mierzejewska, Fordham University; 

Florain Haumer, Macromedia University; 

Axel Roepnack, Fordham University; 

Christopher Schmidt, Macromedia University; 

and Anran Luo, Fordham University 

What is Fair? How Journalists’ Dual Identity, Resource 

Conservation, and Power Dynamics Shape Pay Secrecy 

Culture 

Fitria Andayani, Missouri 

Discussant 

Michael Wirth, Tennessee-Knoxville 


12:30 to 2 p.m. / S019 



Top Papers: Student Competition and Intersecting 

Identities Award 



Rethinking Cultural Factors in Government 

Communication: A Survey of Environmental 

Professionals Working for Indigenous Governments* 

Ryan Comfort, Indiana 

I Distrust You All Because One of You Did Something 

Wrong: Spillover Effect of Distrust Elicited by an NPO’s 

Crisis on Overall NPOs** 

Bugil Chang, Minnesota 

Managing Anger During Crisis Using the BCO 

Framework*** 

Erika Schneider, Missouri 

Different Brands Stealing Thunder: How Brand 

Personality Impacts Crisis Response Strategy Choice 

Dongqing Xu, Miami 

Intersecting Identities Award 

Can CEO Activism be Good for the Organization? The 

Way CEO Activism on Sexual Orientation Equality 

Achieves High Young Employee Work Engagement 

Jie Jin, Florida 

Discussant 


**** First Place Student Competition Paper 

***** Second Place, Student Competition Paper 

****** Third Place Student Competition Paper 

12:30 to 2 p.m. / S020 



Publishing Classroom Work to Public Audiences: 

Legal and Ethical Considerations 



Panelists 

D. Jasun Carr, Idaho State 


Caitlin Ring Carlson, Seattle 

Christopher Terry, Minnesota

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For over two decades, Linda Aldoory has been 

a leader in the Department of Communication 

and the College of Arts and Humanities at the 

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Presidents 

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American Association of Teachers 

of Journalism 1912-1950 

1912 Willard G. Bleyer, Wisconsin 

1913 Talcott Williams, Columbia 

1914 Merle Thorpe, Kansas 

1915 Merle Thorpe, Kansas 

1916 James M. Lee, New York U. 

1917 Fred N. Scott, Michigan 

1918 Wartime, no convention 

1919 Wartime, no convention 

1920 H.F. Harrington, Northwestern 

1921 Willard G. Bleyer, Wisconsin 

1922 E.W. Smith, Stanford 

1923 F.W. Beckman, Iowa State 

1924 J.W. Piercy, Indiana 

1925 N.A. Crawford, Kansas State 

1926 M.G. Osborn, Louisiana State 

1927 F.J. Lazell, Iowa 

1928 Grant M. Hyde, Wisconsin 

1929 E. Marion Johnson, Minnesota 

1930 John E. Drewry, Georgia 

1931 Lawrence R. Murphy, Illinois 

1932 Ralph L. Crosman, Colorado 

1933 Ralph L. Crosman, Colorado 

1934 William L. Mapel, Washington & Lee 

1935 Kenneth E. Olson, Northwestern 

1936 C. Gayle Walker, Nebraska 

1937 Blair Converse, Iowa State 

1938 Edward N. Doan, Ohio State 

1939 Charles L. Allen, Northwestern 

1940 Charles L. Allen, Northwestern 

1941 Ralph O. Nafziger, Minnesota 

1942 Douglass W. Miller, Syracuse 

1943 Douglass W. Miller, Syracuse 

1944 Frederic E. Merwin, Rutgers 

1945 Frederic E. Merwin, Rutgers 

1946 Curtis D. MacDougall, Northwestern 

1947 Marcus M. Wilkerson, Louisiana State 

1948 Roland E. Wolseley, Syracuse 

1949 A. Gayle Waldrop, Colorado 

1950 Henry Ladd Smith, Wisconsin 


1951-1982 

1951 Ralph O. Nafziger, Wisconsin 

1952 J. Edward Gerald, Minnesota 

1953 Earl English, Missouri 

1954 George E. Simmons, Tulane 

1955 Roscoe Ellard, Columbia 

1956 Kenneth R. Marvin, Iowa State 

1957 Norval N. Luxon, North Carolina 

1958 Warren K. Agee, Texas Christian 

1959 Mitchell V. Charnley, Minnesota 

1960 Fred S. Siebert, Illinois 

1961 Charles T. Duncan, Oregon 

1962 Kenneth N. Stewart, California-Berkeley 

1963 Theodore E. Peterson, Illinois 

1964 William E. Porter, Michigan 

1965 Edward W. Barrett, Columbia 

1966 DeWitt C. Reddick, Texas 

1967 Harold L. Nelson, Wisconsin 

1968 Robert L. Jones, Minnesota 

1969 James W. Schwartz, Iowa State 

1970 William E. Ames, Washington 

1971 Wayne Danielson, Texas 

1972 Hillier Krieghbaum, New York U. 

1973 R. Neale Copple, Nebraska 

1974 Bruce H. Westley, Kentucky 

1975 Edwin Emery, Minnesota 

1976 Edward Bassett, Southern Cal 

1977 Kenneth Devol, California State, Northridge 

1978 James Carey, Iowa 

1979 Mary A. Gardner, Michigan State 

1980 Richard G. Gray, Indiana 

1981 Del Brinkman, Kansas 

1982 Kenneth Starck, Iowa 



1983- 

1983 Richard Cole, North Carolina 

1984 Everette Dennis, Oregon 

1985 Douglas Ann Newsom, Texas Christian 

1986 Dwight L. Teeter, Jr., Texas at Austin 

1987 Sharon M. Murphy, Marquette 

1988 David H. Weaver, Indiana 

1989 Thomas A. Bowers, North Carolina 

1990 MaryAnn Yodelis Smith, Wisconsin Centers 

1991 Ralph Lowenstein, Florida 

1992 Terry Hynes, California State, Fullerton 

1993 Tony Atwater, Rutgers 

1994 Maurine Beasley, Maryland 

1995 Judy VanSlyke Turk, South Carolina 

1996 Pamela J. Shoemaker, Syracuse 

1997 Alexis Tan, Washington State 

1998 Stephen R. Lacy, Michigan State 

1999 Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver, Florida International 

2000 Marilyn Kern-Foxworth, Texas A&M 

2001 Will Norton, Jr., Nebraska-Lincoln 

2002 Joe S. Foote, Arizona State 

2003 Theodore L. Glasser, Stanford 

2004 Jannette L. Dates, Howard 

2005 Mary Alice Shaver, Central Florida 

2006 Sharon Dunwoody, Wisconsin-Madison 

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Presidents (Continued) 

2007 Wayne Wanta, Missouri-Columbia 

2008 Charles C. Self, Oklahoma 

2009 Barbara B. Hines, Howard 

2010 Carol J. Pardun, South Carolina 

2011 Jan Slater, Illinois at Urbana 

2012 Linda Steiner, Maryland 

2013 Kyu Ho Youm, Oregon 

2014 Paula M. Poindexter, Texas at Austin 

2015 Elizabeth L. Toth, Maryland 

2016 Lori Bergen, Colorado-Boulder 

2017 Paul Voakes, Colorado-Boulder 

2018 Jennifer D. Greer, Alabama 

2019 Marie Hardin, Pennsylvania State 

2020 David D. Perlmutter, Texas Tech 

2021 Tim P. Vos, Michigan State 

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AEJMC Award Recipients 

161 

Krieghbaum Under-40 Award 

This award was created and funded by the late Hillier 

Krieghbaum, New York, a long-time AEJMC member and 

a past president, to honor AEJMC members under 40 

years of age who have shown outstanding achievement 

and effort in AEJMC’s three key areas: teaching, research 

and public service. Annual award. 

2021 Karen McIntyre, Virginia Commonwealth 

2020 Edson C. Tandoc Jr., Nanyang Technological 

Janet Yang, Buffalo-The State University 

of New York 

2019 Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn, Georgia 

2018 Shirley S. Ho, Nanyang Technological 

2017 Jakob D. Jensen, Utah 

2016 Jörg Matthes, Vienna 

2015 Homero Gil de Zùñiga, Vienna 

2014 Yan Jin, Virginia Commonwealth 

2013 John Besley, Michigan State 

2012 Susan Robinson, Wisconsin-Madison 

2011 Sri Kalyanaraman, North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

2010 Dietram Scheufele, Wisconsin-Madison 

2009 Kimberly Bissell, Alabama 

2008 Patricia Moy, Washington 

2007 William P. Eveland, Jr., Ohio State 

2006 David S. Domke, Washington 

2005 Dhavan V. Shah, Wisconsin-Madison 

2004 Clay Calvert, Pennsylvania State 

2003 Julie Andsager, Washington State 

2002 David T.Z. Mindich, Saint Michael’s 

2001 Erica Weintraub Austin, Washington State 

2000 Carolyn Kitch, Temple 

1999 David Atkin, Cleveland State 

1998 Edward Adams, Angelo State 

1997 Annie Lang, Indiana 

1996 John Ferré, Louisville 

1995 Wayne Wanta, Oregon 

1994 Stephen D. Reese, Texas at Austin 

1993 Marilyn Kern-Foxworth, Texas A&M 

1992 Carroll Glynn, Cornell 

1991 Jeff Smith, Iowa 

1990 Pamela Shoemaker, Texas at Austin 

1989 Robert Drechsel, Wisconsin-Madison 

1988 Jane D. Brown, North Carolina 

1987 Theodore Glasser, Minnesota 


1985 Lee Becker, Ohio State 

1984 Ellen Wartella, Illinois 

1983 David Weaver, Indiana 

1982 Everette Dennis, Oregon 

1981 David Rubin, New York (first) 

Baskett Mosse Award for Faculty 

Development 

The Baskett Mosse Award was created by AEJMC 

and the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism 

and Mass Communications in honor of the late Baskett 

Mosse, executive secretary of the Accrediting Committee 

for 26 years. The award recognizes an outstanding young 

or mid-career faculty member and helps fund a proposed 

enrichment activity. Not an annual award. 

2021 Karin Assmann, Georgia 

2019 Michelle K. Baker, Pennsylvania State 

2017 Janice Collins, Illinois 

2015 Kim Smith, North Carolina A&T 

2013 Homero Gil de Zuniga, Texas at Austin 

2011 Murgur Geana, Kansas 

2009 Barbara Friedman, North Carolina 

2005 Robert Kerr, Oklahoma 

2003 Sandra Chance, Florida 

2002 Laura Castañeda, Southern California 

2001 Andrew Mendelson, Temple 

2000 Jan LeBlanc Wicks, Arkansas-Fayetteville 

1999 Debashis Aikat, North Carolina 

1998 Lauren Tucker, South Carolina 

1996 Sue A. Lafky, Iowa 

1995 Kathleen Fearn-Banks, Washington 

1994 Laurence B. Alexander, Florida 

1993 Glen Cameron, Georgia 

1992 Joy Morrison, Alaska-Fairbanks 

1991 Lael Morgan, Alaska-Fairbanks 

1990 C. Zoe Smith, Marquette 

1989 Stephen R. Lacy, Michigan State 

Charles Salmon, Wisconsin-Madison 

1988 Terry Hynes, California State, Fullerton 

1987 Tony Atwater, Michigan State 

1986 Patrick S. Washburn, Ohio 

1985 Margaret Ann Blanchard, North Carolina 

1984 Donna Lee Dickerson, South Florida (first) 

AEJMC Presidential Award 

Given to dedicated and long-serving AEJMC members 

by the current AEJMC president. The award recognizes distinguished 

service to journalism and mass communication 

education. Presented on an as-appropriate basis. 

2019 Will Norton, Mississippi 

2018 Charles Self, 227 International, LLC 


2016 Barbara Hines, Howard 

2015 Pam Bourland-Davis, Georgia Southern 

2014 Carolyn Stroman, Howard 

2013 Douglas Anderson, Pennsylvania State 

2012 David T.Z. Mindich, St. Michael’s 

2010 Suzette Heiman, Missouri

Areas of focus include: Media Psychology • Eye tracking • Social Media Analytics • Press Freedom 

Virtual Reality • Health Journalism • Health Risk Communication • Crisis Communication 

New Media Studies • Global Communication • Entertainment Studies 

Brain, Body and Media (BBAM) Lab 

Director: Dr. Glenna Read 

BBAM Lab researchers examine the effects of advertising and media 

messages through investigating facial reactions, heart rate responses 

and brain waves. These physiological responses are one way to study 

media effects and can be combined with other traditional survey 

responses to get a fuller picture of how video and language elicit 

physical reactions as well as thoughts and feelings. 

Center for Health and Risk Communications 

Co-Directors: Dr. Glen Nowak and 

Dr. Michael Cacciatore 

The CHRC features nearly 30 faculty members across campus focused on 

effective health-related communications. Research focuses on how 

target audiences make health-related decisions and factors that 

influence or persuade people to adopt health advice and 

recommendations, including vaccine acceptance and hesitancy. 

Crisis Communication Coalition 

Director: Dr. Bryan Reber 

The CCC serves as a source for research, commentary and practical guidance 

for all facets of crisis communication leadership. The CCC is also a resource for 

journalists seeking comment and analysis of newsworthy crisis events. 

Digital Media Attention and Cognition (DMAC) Lab 

Director: Dr. Bartoz Wojdynski 

The DMAC Lab features sophisticated eye tracking and facial expression analysis 

equipment for testing audience attention and reactions to media messages. 

Studies examine how consumers process and verify news and how they evaluate 

the connection of emotion with social media and advertisements.

Games and Virtual Environment Lab (GAVEL) and VERGE 

(Virtual Environment Room and Gaming Experience) Labs 

Director: Dr. Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn 

The VR labs feature two exploratory spaces with 17 stations to 

experience the effects of virtual and mixed-reality environments. 

Research evaluates the effects of virtual and mixed-reality 

environments and how VR shapes the way people think and behave in 

the physical world. Other studies include how virtual environments 

impact healthy attitudes and environmental risk. 

Health and Medical Journalism 

Director: Professor Sabriya Rice 

Students who study HMJ specialize in translating complex medical and 

healthcare topics for lay audiences through written, digital and social media. 

Students supplement journalistic skills in news writing, data gathering and 

digital media with substantive background knowledge in such fields as disease 

ecology, health policy, food and nutrition science and disaster management, 

among others. 

Peabody Media Center 

Director: Dr. Jeffrey P. Jones 

As an extension of the internationally respected Peabody Awards, the 

Peabody Media Center engages in programming that outwardly extends the 

awards. Graduate students can study the Peabody Archives and why stories 

matter as well as their impact on culture and society. 

Social Media Engagement and Evaluation Suite 

Director: Dr. Itai Himelboim 

The SEE Suite features 20 computer stations with Crimson-Hexagon 

software and large screens for social media listening and analytics. 

Students can research cross platform social data and analyze engagement 

to develop strategic insights and theories. 

"Grady College’s Mass Communication Ph.D. program is renown for 

its rigor and quality. But ultimately, my decision to come to Grady 

College was based on the school’s and the University of Georgia’s 

commitment to fostering excellence and diversity." 

— Dr. Camila Young (Ph.D. ’20)

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AEJMC Award Recipients (Continued) 

2009 Candace Perkins Bowen, Kent State 

Alexis Tan, Washington State 

2008 Keith Sanders, Missouri 

Silvia Pellegrini, Pontificia Universidad 

Catolica de Chile, Santiago 

2007 Donald Shaw, North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

Maxwell McCombs, Texas at Austin 


Cleveland Wilhoit, Indiana 

2005 Kim Rotzell, Illinois (posthumously) 

2004 Lee Becker, Georgia 

Trevor Brown, Indiana 

2003 James Carey, Columbia 

Clifford Christians, Illinois 

2002 Terry Michael, Washington Center for Politics 

and Journalism 

Roberta Win, Voice of America 

2001 Susanne Shaw, Kansas 

David McHam, Houston 

2000 Karen Brown Dunlap, Poynter Institute 

Oscar Gandy, Pennsylvania 

1999 Mark Goodman, Student Press Law Center 

1998 Jennifer H. McGill, AEJMC/ASJMC 

1997 Lionel Barrow, Jr., Howard 

1996 Gerald M. Sass, The Freedom Forum 

Steven Chaffee, Stanford 


Harry Heintzen, Voice of America 

1994 Edwin Emery, Minnesota 

1993 Orlando Taylor, Howard 

Vernon Stone, Missouri 

1992 Sharon Brock, Ohio State 

Carol Reuss, North Carolina 

1991 Bill Taft, Missouri 

John Merrill, Louisiana State 

1990 Wilma Crumley, Nebraska 

1989 Hillier Krieghbaum, New York 

1988 Fred Zwahlen, Oregon State 

1987 Félix Gutiérrez, Southern California 

1985 Al Scroggins, South Carolina 

1984 Bill Chamberlin, North Carolina 

Gerald Stone, Memphis State 

Paul J. Deutschmann Award for Excellence in 

Research 

This award is named in honor of Paul J. Deutschmann, 

who was a central force in the movement to study journalism 

and mass communication scientifically. He helped 

establish and develop the College of Communication 

Arts at Michigan State University, and served as director 

of its Communications Research Center. This award is 

presented by the AEJMC Elected Standing Committee on 

Research. Not an annual award. 

2021 Glen T. Cameron, Missouri 

2020 Daniel Riffe, North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

2019 Esther Thorson, Michigan State 

2018 S. Shyam Sundar, Pennsylvania State 

2017 Steve Reese, Texas at Austin 

2015 Pamela Shoemaker, Syracuse 

2013 Lee Becker, Georgia 


2010 Stephen Lacy, Michigan State 


2007 Guido H. Stempell, III, Ohio 

2005 Donald L. Shaw, North Carolina 

2004 Clifford Christians, Illinois 

2003 Melvin DeFleur, Boston 

2001 Ivan Preston, Wisconsin-Madison 

2000 James Grunig, Maryland 

1999 Steven Chaffee, Stanford 

1998 Maxwell E. McCombs, Texas at Austin 

1997 Jack M. McLeod, Wisconsin-Madison 

1996 George Gerbner, Pennsylvania 

1995 Richard F. Carter, Washington 

1994 Phillip Tichenor, Minnesota 

George Donohue, Minnesota 

Clarice Olien, Minnesota 

1993 Wayne Danielson, Texas at Austin 

1991 Scott Cutlip, Georgia 

1985 Bruce Westley, Kentucky 

1981 Harold L. Nelson, Wisconsin-Madison 

1979 J. Edward Gerald, Minnesota 

1973 Wilbur Schramm, Iowa 

1972 Ralph O. Nafziger, Minnesota/Wisconsin- 

Madison 

1969 Chilton R. Bush, Stanford (first) 

Eleanor Blum Distinguished Service to Research 

Award 

This award was created by the AEJMC Elected 

Standing Committee on Research to recognize a person 

who has devoted a substantial part of his/her career to 

promoting research in mass communication. It is named 

in honor of the first recipient, Eleanor Blum, a communication 

librarian. Not an annual award. 

2021 Louisa Ha, Bowling Green State 


2019 Melvin DeFleur, Louisiana State 

(posthumously) 

2017 Esther Thorson, Michigan State 

2016 Paula Poindexter, Texas at Austin 

2014 Daniel Riffe, North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

2008 Maurine Beasley, Maryland 

2007 Patrick Washburn, Ohio 

2006 James W. Tankard, Jr., Texas at Austin 

(posthumously) 

2005 Margaret Blanchard, North Carolina 

(posthumously)


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2004 Everette E. Dennis, Fordham 

2003 James A. Crook, Tennessee 

2001 Barbara Semouche, North Carolina 

1996 Frances Wilhoit, Indiana 

1989 Guido Stempel, III, Ohio 

1986 Ed Emery, Minnesota 

1983 Raymond B. Nixon, Minnesota 

1980 Eleanor Blum, Illinois (first) 

Nafziger-White-Salwen Dissertation Award 

This award is named for pioneering journalism 

and mass communication educators Ralph O. Nafziger 

and David Manning White, who donated the royalties 

from their book Introduction to Mass Communication 

Research to fund the award. The award recognizes and 

encourages outstanding dissertation research in journalism 

and mass communication. Michael Salwen’s name 

was added to the award in 2008. Salwen, who died in 

2007, was a co-author of “An Integrated Approach to 

Communication Theory and Research”, the royalties of 

which now help fund this award. Annual award. Year 

listed is year award was presented. 

2021 Scott Memmel, Minnesota 

Adviser: Jane Kirtley, Minnesota 

2020 Qun Wang, Rutgers 

Adviser: Susan Keith, Rutgers 

2019 Pallavi Guha, Maryland (Now at Towson) 

Advisers: Kalyani Chadha & Linda Steiner, Maryland 

2018 Brooks Fuller, Louisiana State University 

Advisers: Michael Hoefges & Victoria Ekstrand, 

North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

2017 Jieun Shin, Southern California 

Adviser: Lian Jian, Southern California 

2016 Rodrigo Zamith, Minnesota 

Adviser: Seth Lewis, Minnesota 

2015 Summer Harlow, Florida State 

Adviser: Mercedes de Uriarte and Tom Johnson, 

Texas at Austin 

2014 Scott Parrott, North Carolina, Chapel Hill 

Adviser: Rhonda Gibson, North Carolina 


2013 Brendan Watson, North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

Adviser: Daniel Riffe, North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

2012 Dean Smith, North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

Adviser: Cathy Packer, North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

2011 Matthew W. Ragas, DePaul 

Adviser: Spiro Kiousis, Florida 

2010 Jeremy Littau, Lehigh 

Adviser: Esther Thorson, Missouri 

2009 Leigh Moscowitz, College of Charleston 

Adviser: Radhika Parameswaran, Indiana 

2008 Ronald J. “Noah” Arceneaux, San Diego State 

Adviser: Jay Hamilton, Georgia 

2007 David Cuillier, Washington State 

Adviser: Susan Denté Ross, Washington State 

2006 Kathy Roberts Forde, North Carolina 

Adviser: Ruth Walden, North Carolina 

2005 Young Mie Kim, Illinois 

Adviser: David Tewksbury, Illinois at 

Urbana-Champaign 

2004 Zala Voicic, Colorado at Boulder 

Adviser: Andrew Calabrese, Colorado at Boulder 

2003 Mark Avrom Feldstein, North Carolina 

Adviser: Margaret A. Blanchard, North Carolina 

2002 Carolyn Bronstein, DePaul 

Adviser: James L. Baughman, Wisconsin-Madison 

2001 Edward Alwood, North Carolina 

Adviser: Margaret A. Blanchard, North Carolina 

2000 Dhavan V. Shah, Wisconsin-Madison 

Adviser: Daniel B. Wackman, Minnesota 

1999 Barbara Zang, Missouri 

Adviser: David Nord, Indiana 

1998 Craig Trumbo, Cornell 

Adviser: Garrett O’Keefe, Wisconsin-Madison 

1997 David Scott Domke, Minnesota 

Adviser: Hazel F. Dicken-Garcia, Minnesota 

1996 Paul Voakes, Indiana 

Adviser: Robert Drechsel, Wisconsin-Madison 

1995 Karen S. Miller, Georgia 

Adviser: James L. Baughman, Wisconsin-Madison 

1994 Jane Rhodes, Indiana 

Adviser: Margaret Blanchard, North Carolina 

1993 Caroline Schooler, Stanford 

Adviser: Steven Chaffee, Stanford 

1992 Mark D. West, North Carolina 

Adviser: Jane Brown, North Carolina 

1991 Namjun Kang, Syracuse 

Adviser: George Comstock, Syracuse 

1990 Bob McChesney, Wisconsin-Madison 

Adviser: William Ames, Washington 

1989 Diane C. Mutz, Wisconsin-Madison, 

Adviser: Steven Chaffee, Stanford 

1988 Vincent Price, Michigan, 

Adviser: Donald F. Roberts, Stanford 

1987 John R. Finnegan, Jr., Minnesota, 

Adviser: Hazel Dicken-Garcia, Minnesota 

1986 Jeffery Smith, Wisconsin-Madison 

Adviser: Jim Baughman, Wisconsin-Madison 

1985 Richard Kielbowicz, Minnesota 

Advisers: Ed Emery, Minnesota; 

and Hazel F. Dicken-Garcia, Minnesota 

1984 Ron Tamborini, Indiana (first) 

Adviser: Dolf Zillmann, Indiana 

AEJMC First Amendment Award 

The AEJMC First Amendment Award recognizes professionals 

with a strong commitment to freedom of the 

press, and who practice courageous journalism. Created 

in 2006, the award is presented by the Professional

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Freedom & Responsibility Committee. Annual award. 

2021 Omar Jimenez, CNN 

2020 Shane Bauer, Mother Jones 

2019 Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times 

Magazine 

2018 Ronan Farrow, Jodi Kantor 

and Megan Twohey, The New York Times 

2017 The Pulitzer Prizes 

2016 Reporters Without Borders 

2015 Floyd Abrams, 1st Amendment Attorney 

2014 Joel Simon, Committee to Protect Journalists 

2013 First Amendment Center, Nashville, TN 

2012 Carole Simpson, Broadcaster 

2011 Michael Kirk, Frontline Filmmaker 

2010 Nat Hentoff, Syndicated Columnist 

2009 Seymour Hersh, The New Yorker 

2008 Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune 

2007 Helen Thomas, UPI, Hearst 

2006 Molly Ivins, Synidcated Columnist (first) 

AEJMC Tankard Book Award 

The Tankard Book Award was established to honor 

James W. Tankard, Jr. of Texas at Austin. A former editor 

of Journalism Monographs, the award recognizes his 

many contributions to the field of journalism and mass 

communication education. Award established in 2007. 

2021 — “Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, 

Smartphones, & the New Protest #Journalism” 

by Allissa V. Richardson, Southern California 

2020 — “Automating the News: How Algorithms Are 

Rewriting the Media” 

by Nicholas Diakopoulos, Northwestern 

2019 — “Networked News, Racial Divides: How Power 

and Privilege Shape Public Discourse in Progressive 

Communities” 

by Sue Robinson, Wisconsin-Madison 

2018 — “The News Untold: Community Journalism and 

the Failure to Confront Poverty in Appalachia” 

by Michael Clay Carey, Samford 

2017 — “Democracy’s Detectives: The Economics of 

Investigative Journalism” 

by James T. Hamilton, Stanford 

2016 — “Radical Media Ethics: A Global Approach” 

by Stephen Ward, Wisconsin-Madison 

2015 — “Making News at The New York Times” 

by Nikki Usher, George Washington 

2014 — “Shaping Immigration News: A French- 

American Comparison” 

by Rodney Benson, New York 

2013 — Into the Fray: How NBC’s Washington 

Documentary Unit Reinvented the News 

by Tom Mascaro, Bowling Green State 

2012 — Radio Utopia: Postwar Audio Documentary in 

the Public Interest by Matthew C. Ehrlich, Illinois 

2011 — About to Die: How News Images Move the 

Public by Barbie Zelizer, Pennsylvania 

2010 — Journalism’s Roving Eye: A History of American 

Foreign Reporting 

by John Maxwell Hamilton, Louisiana State 

2009 — The Environment and the Press: From 

Adventure Writing to Advocacy 

by Mark R. Neuzil, St. Thomas 

2008 — Dark Days in the Newsroom: McCarthyism 

Aimed at the Press 

by Edward M. Alwood, Quinnipiac 

2007 — The African-American Newspaper: Voice of 

Freedom by Patrick S. Washburn, Ohio (first) 

AEJMC Equity & Diversity Award 

The AEJMC Equity & Diversity Award recognizes 

Journalism and Mass Communication academic programs 

that are working toward, and have attained measurable 

success, in increasing equity & diversity within their units. 

Programs must display progress and innovation in racial, 

gender, and ethnic equity and diversity over the previous 

three-year period. Created in 2009. Annual award. 

2021 School of Journalism, University of Missouri 

2020 S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, 

Syracuse University 

2019 Reynolds, School of Journalism, 

University of Nevada, Reno 

2018 Klein College of Media & Communication 

Temple University 

2017 Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass 

Communication at Arizona State University 

2016 Mayborn School of Journalism, University of 

North Texas 

2015 College of Communication and Information 

Sciences, University of Alabama 

2014 Greenlee School of Journalism 

and Communication, Iowa State University 

2013 College of Communications, 

Pennsylvania State University 

2012 Annenberg School for Journalism, 

University of Southern California 

2011 School of Journalism & Mass Communication, 

Texas State University, San Marcos 

2010 School of Communications, Elon University 

2009 Manship School of Mass Communication 

at Louisiana State University (first) 

Dorothy Bowles Public Service Award 

The Dorothy Bowles Public Service Award will 

recognize an AEJMC member who has a sustained and 

significant public-service record that has helped build 

bridges between academics and professionals in mass 

communications either nationally or locally, and, been


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actively engaged within the association. Created in 2012. 

Annual award. 

2021 Sharon Bramlett-Solomon, Arizona State 

2020 Bill Cassidy, Northern Illinois 

Carol Holstead, Kansas 

2019 Jan Leach, Kent State 

2018 Donald K. Wright, Boston 

2017 Sandra Utt, Memphis 

2016 Rosental Alves, Texas at Austin 

2015 W. Wat Hopkins, Virginia Tech 

2014 Don W. Stacks, Miami 

2013 Judy VanSlyke Turk, Virginia Commonwealth 

2012 Candace Perkins Bowen, Kent State (first) 

Outstanding Contribution to Journalism Education 

This award, presented by the Commission on the 

Status of Women in Journalism Education, recognizes a 

woman who has represented women well through personal 

excellence and high standards in journalism and 

mass communciation education. Not an annual award. 

2021 Amanda Hinnant, Missouri 

2020 Nicole Kraft, Ohio State 

2019 Stacey J.T. Hust, Washington State 

2016 Mia Moody-Ramirez, Baylor 

2015 Julie Andsager, Tennessee 

2014 June Nicholson, Virginia Commonwealth 

2013 Geneva Overholser, Southern California 

2012 Barbara B. Hines, Howard 


2010 Diane Borden, San Diego State 

2009 Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver, Florida International 

2008 Esther Thorson, Missouri 

2006 Judy VanSlyke Turk, Virginia Commonwealth 

2002 Wilma Crumley, Nebraska-Lincoln 

2000 Douglas Ann Newsom, Texas Christian 

1998 Jennifer H. McGill, AEJMC/ASJMC 

1997 Carol Oukrop, Kansas State 

1996 Carol Reuss, North Carolina 

1994 Maurine H. Beasley, Maryland 

1992 Jean Ward, Minnesota 

1991 MaryAnn Yodelis Smith, Wisconsin 

1990 Ramona Rush, Kentucky 

1989 Mary Gardner, Michigan State 

1988 Donna Allen, Women’s Institute for Freedom 

of the Press, Washington, DC 

1983 Cathy Covert, Syracuse 

1982 Marion Marzolf, Michigan (first) 

Robert Knight Multicultural Recruitment Award 

This award is presented annually by the Scholastic 

Journalism Division to organizations or individuals who 

have made outstanding efforts in attracting high school 

minority students into journalism and mass communication. 

Created in 1987. 

2020 Ed Madison, Oregon 

2019 Tori Smith, Northern Arizona 

2018 Acel Moore High School Journalism 

Workshop, The Philadelphia Media Network 

2016 Kimetris Baltrip, Kansas State 

2015 George Daniels, Alabama 

2014 Steve O’Donoghue, California Scholastic 

Journalism Initiative 

2013 Linda Florence Callahan, North Carolina 

A&T State 

2012 Illinois Press Foundation 

and Eastern Illinois University High School 

Journalism Workshop 

2011 Joseph Selden, Pennsylvania State 

2010 University of Arizona School of Journalism 

2009 Michael Days & Staff, Philadelphia Daily News 

2008 June O. Nicholson, Virginia Commonwealth 

2007 Ed Mullins, Alabama 

2006 name, affiliation 

2005 Linda Ximenes, Ximenes & Associates 

2004 Diana Mitsu Klos, American Society 

of Newspaper Editors 

2003 Vanessa Shelton, Iowa 

2002 Walt Swanston, Radio and Television 

News Directors Foundation 

2001 Doris Giago, South Dakota State 

2000 Linda Waller, Dow Jones Newspaper Fund 

1999 Marie Parsons, Alabama 

1998 Lucy Ganje, North Dakota 

1997 California Chicano News 

Media Association, San Diego Chapter 

1996 Barbara Hines, Howard 

1995 Diane Hall, Florida A&M 

1994 Mary Arnold, Iowa 

1993 Alice Bonner, The Freedom Forum 

1992 Richard Lee, South Dakota State 

1991 Thomas Engleman, Dow Jones 

Newspaper Fund 

1990 Robert Knight, Missouri 

1989 George Curry, The Chicago Tribune, 

Washington, DC, Bureau 

1988 Craig Trygstad, Youth Communication, Inc., 

Washington, DC 

1987 Pittsburgh Black Media Federation (first) 

MaryAnn Yodelis Smith Research Award 

This award was created in 1991 by the Commission 

on the Status of Women in honor and memory of 

MaryAnn Yodelis Smith of Minnesota and Wisconsin, 

1989-90 AEJMC president. 

2021 Lisa D. Lenoir, Missouri 

2020 Jennifer Huemmer, Ithaca

ASSOCIATION FOR EDUCATION IN JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATION 

Congratulates 

M 

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI 

The 2021 Recipient of the 

AE MC EQUITY & DIVER ITY AWARD 

JOURNALISM.MISSOURI.EDU

To our esteemed faculty, from your colleagues and friends 


Glen Cameron 

Professor Emeritus 

2021 Paul J. Deutschmann 

Award for Excellence 

in Research 

Earnest Perry 

Associate Dean 

for Graduate Studies 

and Research 

2021 Lionel C. Barrow Jr. 

Award for Distinguished 

Achievement in Diversity 

Research and Education 

/mujschool @mujschool @mujschool 

journalism.missouri.edu


To our award-winning faculty 

Amanda Hinnant 

Associate Professor 

Outstanding Woman 

in Journalism and 

Mass Communication 

Hinnant has taught courses on 

communication research, qualitative 

methodology, documentary 

storytelling, journalism and 

democracy, as well as magazine 

reporting and writing. Her research 

focuses on health and science 

communication, media sociology, and 

narrative persuasion. 

Amy Simons 

Professor 

First place in the Best 

Practices Competition 

Simons’s work has taken her to 

China and the European Union, 

teaching web-first workflows, mobile 

journalism techniques and how to use 

social media as a reporting tool and 

a means to disseminate journalistic 

content. She serves as the adviser 

to the School’s student organization 

Mizzou Women in Media. 



Innovating Science 

Communication 

Maxine Wilson 

Gregory Chair in 

Journalism Research 

During her time at the Missouri School of Journalism, 

Rodgers has successfully led interdisciplinary teams 

of scientists, students, educators, practitioners 

and everyday citizens on health and science 

communication initiatives, garnering or overseeing 

nearly $30 million in grant funding. 

Shelly Rodgers 

Professor 

Welcome to our new science communication faculty 

Zachary Massey 


Massey’s research examines how 

people process and respond to 

theoretically derived health and 

risk messages. His work seeks to 

deepen public understanding of 

science and inform regulatory 

decision making. 

Susan Renoe 

Assistant Professor and Associate 

Vice Chancellor for Research, 

Extension & Engagement 

In her role, Renoe works to 

strengthen the university’s impact 

on the state of Missouri. She is 

also Principal Investigator and 

Executive Director of the National 

Science Foundation-funded 

(NSF) Center for Advancing 

Research Impact in Society. 

Kathleen Rose 


Rose’s work investigates both 

scientists’ public engagement 

efforts and public attitudes and 

understanding of science with 

respect to controversial issues. 



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and Lauren Britton, Ithaca 

2019 Stine Eckert, Wayne State 

2016 Tania Rosas-Moreno, Loyola-Maryland 

2015 Dustin Harp, Texas at Arlington 

2014 Stacey J.T. Hust, Washington State 

Kathleen Boyce Rodgers, Washington State 

2013 Cory Armstrong, Florida 

2012 Shayla Thiel-Stern, Minnesota 

2011 Marilyn Greenwald, Ohio 

2010 Sheila Webb, Western Washington 

2009 Elizabeth Skewes, Colorado 

2008 Margaretha Geertsema, Butler 

2007 Barbara Barnett, Kansas 

2006 Marie Hardin, Pennsylvania State 

2005 Jan Whitt, Colorado 

2004 Radhika Parameswaran, Indiana 

Kavitha Cardoza, Illinois at Springfield 

2003 Susan Henry, California State-Northridge 

2000 E-K Daufin, Alabama State 

1999 Marilyn Kern-Foxworth, Florida A&M 


1997 Kathleen Endres, Akron 

1996 Linda Steiner, Rutgers 

1995 Carolyn Stewart Dyer, Iowa (first) 

Lionel C. Barrow Jr. Award for Distinguished 

Achievement in Diversity Research 

Created in 2009, the award recognizes outstanding 

individual accomplishment and leadership in diversity 

efforts within the Journalism and Mass Communication 

discipline. Created by the AEJMC Minorities & 

Communication Division and the Commission on the 

Status of Minorities, the award honors Barrow’s lasting 

impact, and recognizes others who are making their 

mark in diversifying JMC education. 

2021 Earnest L. Perry, Missouri 

2020 Meta Carstarphen, Oklahoma 

2019 Rochelle Forde, Elon 

2018 Mia Moody-Ramirez, Baylor 

2017 Loren Ghiglione, Northwestern 

2016 Joel Beeson, West Virginia 

2015 Alice Tait, Central Michigan 

2014 Marilyn Kern-Foxworth, Marketing and 

Media Consultant 

2013 Clint C. Wilson II, Howard 

2012 Federico Subervi, Texas State San Marcos 

2011 Félix Gutiérrez, Southern California 

2010 Robert M. Ruggles, Florida A&M 

2009 Paula M. Poindexter, Texas at Austin (first) 

Lee Barrow Doctoral Minority Student Scholarship 

Co-Sponsored by the Communication Theory and 

Methodology Division, the Minorities and Communication 

Division and the Commission on the Status of Minorities, 

the scholarship is named for Dr. Lionel C. Barrow, Jr., of 

Howard University in recognition of his pioneering efforts 

in support of minority education in journalism and mass 

communication. The scholarship assists a minority student 

enrolled in a doctoral program in journalism or mass 

communication. 

2021 Krishna Madhavi P. Reddi, North Carolina 


2018 Qun Wang, Rutgers 

2017 Osita Iroegbu, Virginia Commonwealth 

2016 Adrienne Muldrow, Washington State 

2015 Diane Francis, North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

2014 Jenny Korn, Harvard 

2013 Dominique Harrison, Howard 

2012 Rowena Briones, Maryland 

2011 Adrienne Chung, Ohio State 

2010 Eulalia Puig Abril, Wisconsin-Madison 

2009 Emily Elizabeth Acosta, Wisconsin-Madison 

2008 Troy Elias, Ohio State 

2007 Yusur Kalynago, Jr., Missouri 

2006 Omotayo Banjo, Pennsylvania State 

2005 Jeanetta Simms, Central Oklahoma 

2004 Susan Chang, Michigan State 

2003 T. Kenn Gaither, North Carolina 

2002 Mia Moody-Hall, Texas at Austin 

2001 George Daniels, Georgia 

2000 Maria E. Len-Rios, Missouri 

1999 Meredith Lee Ballmer, Washington 

1998 Osei Appiah 

1997 Alice Chan Plummer, Michigan State 

1996 Dwayne Proctor, Connecticut 

1995 Dhavan Shah, Minnesota 

1994 Qingnen Dong, Washington State 

1993 Shalini Venturelli, Colorado 

1991 Diana Rios, Texas at Austin 

1990 Jose Lozano 

1989 Jane Rhodes, North Carolina 

1987 James Sumner Lee, North Carolina 

1985 Barbara McBain Brown, Stanford 

1983 Dianne L. Cherry, North Carolina 

1982 Tony Atwater, Michigan State 

1981 Sharon Bramlett, Indiana 

1980 Federico Subervi, Wisconsin-Madison 

1979 Gillian Grannum, North Carolina 

1978 Paula Poindexter, Syracuse 

1977 John J. Johnson, Ohio 

1975 Norman W. Spaulding, Illinois 

1974 Rita Fujiki, Washington 

1973 William E. Berry, Illinois 

Clay Perry, Indiana 

Sherrie Lee Mazingo, Michigan State 

1972 Richard Allen, Wisconsin-Madison (first)

AEJMC Historical Conference Sites 

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2021 August 4 - 7 ................................. Virtual Conference 

2020 August 6 - 9 ................................. Virtual Conference 

2019 August 7 - 10 .................................. Toronto, Canada 

2018 August 6 - 9 .................................... Washington, DC 

2017 August 9 - 12 .......................................... Chicago, IL 

2016 August 4 - 7 ................................... Minneapolis, MN 

2015 August 6 - 9 .................................. San Francisco, CA 

2014 August 6 - 9 .................................. Montréal, Canada 

2013 August 8 - 11 .................................. Washington, DC 

2012 August 9- 12 ........................................... Chicago, IL 

2011 August 10 - 13 ..................................... St. Louis, MO 

2010 August 4 - 7 ............................................. Denver, CO 

2009 August 5 - 8 ............................................. Boston, MA 

2008 August 6 - 9 ............................................. Chicago, IL 


2006 August 2 - 5 ................................... San Francisco, CA 

2005 August 10 - 13 .................................. San Antonio, TX 

2004 August 4 - 7 ...................................... Toronto, Canada 

2003 July 30 - August 2 ............................. Kansas City, MO 

2002 August 7 - 10 ................................... Miami Beach, FL 

2001 August 5 - 8 ...................................... Washington, DC 

2000 August 9 - 12 .......................................... Phoenix, AZ 

1999 August 4 - 7 ..................................... New Orleans, LA 

1998 August 5 - 8 ......................................... Baltimore, MD 

1997 July 30 - August 2 ..................................... Chicago, IL 

1996 August 10 -13 ......................................... Anaheim, CA 


1994 August 10 -13 ........................................... Atlanta, GA 

1993 August 11 - 14 ................................. Kansas City, MO 

1992 August 5 - 8 .................................... Montreal, Canada 

1991 August 7 - 10 ............................................ Boston, MA 

1990 August 9 - 12 ................................... Minneapolis, MN 

1989 August 10 - 13 .................................. Washington, DC 

1988 July 2 - 5 ............................................. Portland, OR 

1987 August 1 - 4 ......... Trinity University, San Antonio, TX 

1986 August 3 - 6 .......................... University of Oklahoma 

1985 August 3 - 6 ..................... Memphis State University 

1984 August 5 - 8 ............................. University of Florida 

1983 August 5 - 10 ..................... Oregon State University 

1982 July 25 - 28 .......................... Ohio University-Athens 

1981 August 8 - 11 .................. Michigan State University 

1980 August 10 - 13 ............................ Boston University 

1979 August 5 - 8 ........................... University of Houston 

1978 August 13 - 16 .... University of Washington-Seattle 

1977 August 21 - 24 ...... University of Wisconsin-Madison 

1976 July 31 - August 4 ............... University of Maryland 

1975 August 16 - 20 .. Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada 

1974 August 18 - 21 ................ San Diego State University 

1973 August 19 - 22 ............... Colorado State University 

1972 August 20 - 23 ... So. Illinois University at Carbondale 

1971 August 21 - 25 ............. University of South Carolina 

1970 August 16 - 20 . American University, Washington, DC 

1969 August 24 - 27 ....... University of California-Berkeley 

1968 August 25 - 29 ......................... University of Kansas 

1967 August 27 - 31 ......... University of Colorado-Boulder 

1966 August 28 - Sept 1 ........ University of Iowa-Iowa City 

1965 August 22 - 26 .......................... Syracuse University 

1964 August 26 - 30 ............. University of Texas at Austin 

1963 August 25 - 29 ...................... University of Nebraska 

1962 August 26 - 30 .............. University of North Carolina 

1961 August 27 - 31 ...... University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 

1960 August 29 - Sept 2 ........... Pennsylvania State University 

1959 August 25 - 29 ............ University of Oregon-Eugene 

1958 August 25 - 29 ....... University of Missouri-Columbia 

1957 August 26 - 30 .............................. Boston University 

1956 August 28 - 31 ........................ Northwestern University 

1955 August 22 - 26 ............ University of Colorado-Boulder 

1954 August 31 - Sept 2 ... Univ of New Mexico-Albuquerque 

1953 August 24 - 27 ........................ Michigan State College 

1952 August 25 - 29 ............................ Columbia University 

1951 August 27 - 29 ........................... University of Illinois 

1950 August 28 - 30 ......... University of Wisconsin-Madison 

1949 August 30 - September 1 ........ University of Minnesota 

1948 September 1 - 3 ...... University of Colorado at Boulder 

1947 December 29 - 31 ....................... Temple University 

1947 January 9 - 11 ........................................ Lexington, KY 

1946 January 24 - 26 ..... Ohio State University-Columbus 

1st joint AASDJ & AATJ convention since 1941 

1945 January 26 - 27 ....................................... Chicago, IL 

1944 January 14 - 15 ............................ Chicago-informal 

1943 January 8 - 9 ................................ Chicago-informal 

1942 ............................................................................. None 

1941 December 27 - 30 ............................ Des Moines, IA 

1940 December 27 - 29 Columbia & New York Universities 

1939 ............................................................................. None 

1938 December 27 - 29 .................................. Topeka, KS 

Constitution changed to biennial conventions 

1937 December 28 - 30 ..................... Ohio State University 

1936 December 30 - 31 .................................. St. Louis, MO 

1935 December 27 - 30 .............................. Washington, DC 

1934 December 27 - 29 ..................................... Chicago, IL 

1933 December 27 - 30 ...................................... Chicago, IL 

1932 ........................ Convention cancelled-Great Depression 

1931 December 27 - 28 ................. University of Minnesota 

1930 December 29 - 31 ............................ Boston University 

1929 December .......................................... Baton Rouge, LA 

1928 December ............................................. Ann Arbor, MI 

1927 December ................................................ Iowa City, IA 

1926 December ............................................ Columbus, OH 

1925 December ............................................. New York City 

1924 December .................................................. Chicago, IL 

1923 December .................................................. Chicago, IL 

1922 December ............................. Northwestern University 

1921 December .............................. University of Wisconsin 

1920 December ................................. University of Missouri 

1919 no convention held, WWI 

1918 no convention held, WWI 

1917 April .......................................................... Chicago, IL 

1916 April ............................................ University of Kansas 

1915 no convention held 

1914 December ................. Columbia University, New York 

1913 Nov 28-29 ............... University of Wisconsin-Madison 

1912 Founded November 30 in Chicago, Illinois

journalist extraordinaire 


Dr. Nancy Dupont 

on your historic win! 

First-ever person to win both the AEJMC 

Edward L. Bliss Award for Distinguished 

Broadcast Journalism Education and 

the Larry Burkum Service Awards in the 

same year. 

Your friends at the University of 

Mississippi School of Journalism and 

New Media applaud you! 

we would also like to welcome 

our newest faculty members: 

Dr. Marquita Smith 

Assistant Dean for Graduate 

Programs and Associate 

Professor of Journalism 

Dr. Ike Brunner 

Instructional Assistant 

Professor of Social Media & 

Data Analytics 

Dr. Amanda Bradshaw 

Assistant Professor of Integrated 

Marketing Communications 

Mr. Brad Conaway 

Instructional Assistant 

Professor of Social Media & 

Data Analytics 

Our school is honored to have more than 30 outstanding faculty, 

and we are delighted to welcome four new members to our team. 

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Get Involved with 

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Attend NED Committee Meeting at AEJMC, 11 a.m., Wed., Aug. 4 

Check out NED website at www.newsengagement.org & follow 

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Plan your NED activities & tweet your photos/video with 

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Encourage your students to enter NED’s TikTok competition & win 

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AEJMC 

Congratulates 

the winner of the 

2021 Gene Burd 

Award for Excellence 

in Urban Journalism 

GABRIELLE 

GURLEY 

Deputy Editor 

The American Prospect

AEJMC 

Congratulates 

GEORGE L. 

DANIELS 

The University of Alabama 

2021 winner of the 

Gene Burd Award 

for Research 

in Urban Journalism 

Studies

Association for Education 

in Journalism and Mass Communication 

Congratulates 

Louisa Ha 

Bowling Green State University 

Winner of the 2021 

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to Research Award

Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication 

Congratulates 

the 2021 recipient of the 

DOROTHY BOWLES PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD 

SHARON 

BRAMLETT-SOLOMON 

Arizona State University 

Sharon Bramlett-Solomon is an associate professor and 

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worked in public relations and radio advertising sales 

and has reported for the Memphis Commercial Appeal 

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and published more than 100 scholarly papers on race, 

media and society issues. 

The Dorothy Bowles Public Service Award 

recognizes an actively engaged AEJMC member within the association who has sustained 

a significant public-service record that has helped build bridges between 

academics and professionals in mass communication either nationally or locally.

News Never Stops 

Neither Do We 

Last winter, amid the slew of challenges posed by the pandemic, CMCI journalism 

students masked up to conduct in-depth community reporting. 

In collaboration with reporters at The Denver Gazette, seniors in CMCI’s CU News 

Corps class examined the impact of the Colorado Department of Transportation’s 

Central 70 construction project on two predominantly working-class, Hispanic 

neighborhoods in Denver’s 80216 ZIP code. 

Gazette Editor Vince Bzdek later wrote that the experience restored his enthusiasm 

for journalism and his faith in humanity. “Working with wide-eyed undergrads, hearing 

the way they look at the world and drinking in their energy and idealism always 

recharges my spiritual batteries.” 

Even in the darkest of moments, the future 

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“There is nothing like a big, strong local newsroom to watch out for corruption 

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2022 Conference Logo Contest Results

The Zimmerman School 

AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA 

AmaZing things are happening at The Zimmerman School of Advertising & Mass Communications 

• New M.S. in Advertising degree with focus on analytics 

(the first in Florida) 

• New state-of-the-art V ū Studio for video production 

• Award-winning, student-produced broadcast news show 

airing weekly on PBS affiliate 

• Student-run advertising and public relations agency 

representing local and global clients 

• Award-winning faculty of scholars and professionals 

recognized with international, national and regional 

awards in 2020-2021 for their work in communication, 

public diplomacy, public relations and film 

• More than $100,000 in student scholarships awarded in 

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THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA 

USF is the fastest-rising university and among the top 50 

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Located in Tampa, Florida – the 13th largest media market 

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SCRIPPS COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION 


Dr. Daniel Riffe 

UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media 

Richard Cole Eminent Professor Emeritus 

recipient of the 

2021 Guido H. Stempel III Award 

for Journalism and Mass 

Communication Research 

awarded by the faculty of the E.W. Scripps School of 

Journalism in recognition of his legacy of journalism 

and mass media research and teaching and his 

contributions to AEJMC, including named the 2020 

AEJMC Paul J. Deutschmann Award for Excellence 

in Research and the 2014 Eleanor Blum Distinguished 

Service to Research Award, and former editor of 

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly.

THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA 

We thank alumna Jennifer McGill for her 

nearly 40 years of service to AEJMC/ASJMC 

and her continued support of journalism 

and mass communication education. 

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